Robots Visiting My Site
So like many website owners one time or another I have been obsessed with my site numbers. I use several tools to track visits to my site. I use counterize II WP plugin, Google Analytics, and Webalizer along with a few others. I really prefer the counters built in to my host but only because the traffic is much higher. Some of the other counters that are on my site side show much lower numbers. As far as I can tell the host side may be tracking bots and other scripts.
So regardless of the accuracy the statics do show trends. So I do believe it is useful to check the stats just to see increases in traffic. It has been handy to see what toons seem to connect and which don’t. I have been able to see that Tuesday’s cartoon seems to have many more hits than Thursday’s for some reason. Anyways obsessing over my site numbers is my alternate hobby in itself.
So is it the program that shows the highest traffic the most accurate? I sure wish that was the case.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I can SO relate.
It sounds like one source is tracking unique viewers (100′s) and the other is tracking the number of times a page is called from your site (1000′s). So each unique user is viewing several pages per visit.
I’ve given up on all trackers except for sitemeter.com. It shows me # of unique viewers, # of hits, averages all each day, and gives me the average number of pages unique viewers load per visit.
for a secondary source, I use my the awstats provided by my webhost.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Samantha, yea I love Awstats as those numbers are large for me, I have a feeling some of the others are more accurate but it is my constitutional right to be delusional.
February 15th, 2010 at 8:40 am
It is easy for me to track my readers. Usually all 5 of them will email me or leave a comment.