Not all weblog owners realise how unique Blogger Stats is, inwards its design.
Some owners may idly propose that Stats tin easily endure replaced past times whatsoever tertiary political party visitor action log / meter.
Why bother to role Stats? Since Blogger Stats shows referrer spam, it's pretty useless - exactly role SiteMeter, StatCounter - or Google Analytics.
They receive got no thought why Stats was designed equally it is, nor what information Stats provides, that no competing production tin perhaps provide.
Every improver accessory, such equally whatsoever visitor action counter / log / meter, has to endure manually installed inwards your blog.
Most visitor action counter / log / meter products involve installation. Simple accessories, which depend upon your visitor clicking on a link, tin endure installed easily - exactly add together a clickable link on your weblog - either inwards a post, or anywhere inwards the trunk of the blog. Visitor logs or meters such equally SiteMeter or StatCounter, inwards lodge to make usable statistics, can't depend upon the weblog readers clicking on a link.
Most such accessories role improver JavaScript code, installed inwards the trunk of the weblog (as
an accessory gadget), or inwards the weblog template (installed
using "Edit HTML"). With improver code, that references whatsoever external server, the installed location on the weblog page, of the accessory code, is crucial.
- Install the improver at the altitude of the spider web page (or inwards the template code), together with equally your reader loads each page, he / she gets to sentry the page charge pause, equally it waits for a distant accessory server to reply (while recording the visit).
- Install the improver at the bottom of the page, together with whatsoever reader, who closes the display earlier the page finishes loading, volition non endure counted past times Analytics / SiteMeter / StatCounter.
In either case, the page takes longer to load. This causes reader impatience, together with motivates the reader to unopen the display earlier the page finishes loading. The upshot - your weblog gets ane less novel reader.
Most visitor action counter / log / meter products are affected past times filters. Besides reader impatience causing statistical inaccuracy, all tertiary political party accessories that role JavaScript receive got a minute work - script filtering past times our readers.
Analytics, SiteMeter, together with StatCounter are known to endure explicitly blocked, past times some
browser setting or tertiary political party application that may spill out whatsoever given customer computer. Some safety products specifically listing "sitemeter.com" or "statcounter.com" inwards
their Block Lists.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of malicious activity, encountered when surfing the web, tin easily endure blocked past times proactive script filtering - exactly allow scripts, from whatsoever given domain, exclusively when explicitly told to make so.
Every reader uses safety accessories
in the browser together with on the computer - together with many safety accessories together with settings furnish script filtering. Most safety is at ane time provided equally "
deny past times default, allow exclusively on demand".
Most safety products update automatically, equally updates are produced - together with
this leads to other problems. Many of our readers, who are concerned amongst security, or who role computers that are good protected, may non endure counted, consistently, past times Analytics, SiteMeter, or StatCounter.
Stats does non involve installation, together with is non affected past times filters. Blogger Stats avoids the issues of page charge delay induced impatience, together with customer filtering, past times non using JavaScript improver code. Since Stats is a Blogger accessory, it tin think information straight from the access logs produced past times the Blogger servers. Access to server access logs:
- Does non displace page charge delays.
- Is non dependent area to page charge delay impatience.
- Is non dependent area to reader safety settings.
- Does non involve installation of whatsoever accessory, on private blogs.
Besides the problems of our readers visits non beingness counted, nosotros receive got the number of what information is provided, together with for what menses of time. If you lot receive got installed
SiteMeter or StatCounter on your blog, expect at the displays provided. Each production volition advert a bound of either 100 or 500 log entries - together with volition display details or statistics based upon the log used.
Many Blogger blogs popular off to a greater extent than than 500 visits inwards a unmarried 24-hour interval - requiring weblog possessor visits to the log website at to the lowest degree daily, or to pay for extra service, to furnish whatsoever benefit. And of course, that log was started exclusively afterward the production was installed.
Blogger Stats, on the other hand, is able to furnish statistics for the electrical current day, week, month, together with for "all time" (starting inwards May 2009, for all blogs inwards existence at that time).
Stats does non discard erstwhile statistics, they exactly extract from the server access logs, for whatsoever fourth dimension arrive at provided.
- All time.
- Last xxx days ("Month").
- Last seven days ("Week").
- Last 24 hours ("Day").
- Last ii hours ("Now").
Any weblog possessor tin consider whatsoever available statistics, at whatsoever time. Stats never has to endure installed, past times whatsoever weblog owners - it is already there.
Stats is vulnerable to bogus action records, created past times spammers. Unfortunately, the biggest describe of Stats - role of the server access logs to get together the visitor action information - leads to its best known weakness -
abuse past times referer spammers, which leads to
inflated weblog read counts.
It may assistance to sympathise that referer spam did non outset amongst Stats - nor is referer spam unique to Stats. Referer spam has been roughly always since people
published websites, together with displayed a visitor log extract ("My Recent Visitors") to brand their website to a greater extent than interesting to novel readers (The proposition that "This website should endure to a greater extent than interesting to YOU, because it has readers from all over the world!").
Stats, similar every visitor action counter / log / meter product, resets totals. Besides the line of piece of work organisation of referer spam, nosotros consider diverse evidences of
confusion nigh Stats displays.
All of these limitations are only the direct upshot of how Stats is designed.
Every visitor action counter / log / meter production differs, from every other product. In reality, both Blogger Stats together with
third political party visitor action logs or meters receive got their respective advantages - together with
neither pick tin always supervene upon another.
- If you lot desire to consider demographic details nigh some readers of your blog, you lot tin role Analytics, SiteMeter, StatCounter - or whatsoever number of tertiary political party visitor action logs together with meters - afterward the chosen accessory has been installed.
- If you lot desire to consider comprehensive statistics nigh all readers of your weblog - without beingness express past times install fourth dimension or reader safety policy - exclusively Blogger Stats volition assistance you.
Fortunately, all products are complimentary - together with Stats requires no installation. Your Stats information is there, waiting for you lot - on the Blogger dashboard menu.
