Analytics
Analytics states that I’m getting approximately 117 – 150 unique per day, since I started dropping less with Entrecard.
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Now, switching over to just search engine traffic with analytics we see that approximately 50% of my traffic per day recorded by Analytics is search engine based. It’s growing slowly.
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Analytics seems fairly consistent with my ProjectWonderful stats, which means that various blocking plugins for FireFox are not only blocking ProjectWonderful, but Analytics as well.
Webalizer
Now let’s have a look at what webalizer has to say about my traffic.
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Seems as if Webalizer is painting an entirely different picture. It shows that my traffic really didn’t drop off when I started to drop less on Entrecard. I believe this can be explained by my search engine traffic growing, which lead to my drop off of EC not showing up. It’s actually quite apparent to me I’m part of the search engines. Why? Well, I get a lot of spam comments even with BadBehavior running. Without BadBehavior, I once received 50 spam comments in one day.
Conclusion
If you’re using Analytics, I would consider switching to something that is blocked less by the various plugins out there. Clicky analytics was recommended by nukeit.org, and I have to agree. Anything that is being blocked by NoScript/Adblock Plus and the other assortment of things out there, is not going to give you reliable stats. The best stats come from log analyzers such as Webalizer.
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Tags: analytics, statistics, traffic, webalizer
Yeah, about clicky… Might be ok if the user is still on blogspot or something, but their best bet may be Piwik if they have their own hosting. Plus they get the added benefit of having their code hosted on their domain, which should help if the NoScript user has domain whitelisting turned on.
Yea, I was thinking more along the lines of blogspot, since I think most hosts have webalizer at least. I’m making your suggested modifications slowly, I’m stuck on W3C I’ll contact you soon about it.
I use Sawmill for the website analysis at my company. I do not think I have an option to use Webalizer to look at my stats on my blog.
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Well, I see that Sawmill is a log analyzer, so it should give similar stats to Webalizer.
Cool. You’ll have to email me though cause my nix box is sold.
Ah. I see, that’s why you weren’t on IRC. Heh.
Yeah, I’m getting like 30 unique users in analytics for every 100 unique users in webalizer. Didn’t realize that it might be due to javascript blocking. Cool ,that means that I can focus on the bigger number
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