Wednesday January 25, 2006 StatCounter Blog Stats
Like other Sun bloggers before me, I've recently registered an account at statcounter.com and pointed it at my blog.
This site provides a minimal free service (log file size of 100 entries) and various levels of larger commerial equivalents. I just went for the free one. You can see the statistics for my blog here. Hmm. I wonder how many people will look at those stats? Perhaps I should set up a stat counter project to watch my stat. counter. (Sorry. I've recently been reading Godel, Escher and Bach and after a while you start seeing recursion everywhere).
There's only a couple of days worth there, but one thing is clear. The hit count values reported on blogs.sun.com are vastly different. In my case, they are an order of magnitude higher. Most of this is due to search engine spiders walking over all the links in my blog posts. The statcounter.com totals give a much better indication of just how many people are reading my blog web pages, plus a lot more useful information (try clicking on some of the options in the menu on the left).
Note that this doesn't indicate how many people are reading the blog via the RSS feed(s). As far as I know, there is no easy way to measure that because in some cases (such as Bloglines), one RSS "read" is then being fed onto many people.
As others have stated, I too would just prefer to see the Apache log files generated by our own site so we can munge on the results ourselves, but until that comes available www.statcounter.com provides a very nice alternative.
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