Performancing Metrics are a go!

Submitted by varun on Tue, 14/03/2006 - 8:29pm.

There is one thing that all bloggers like to do, apart from blogging that is. Can you guess what that thing is?

All bloggers love to keep a tab on the metrics for their blog. How many visitors read my latest post? How many people have subscribed to my blog feeds? How many readers are regular readers? From which sites were my readers referred to me? And many more similar fundas. Why? I guess for me the main reason is ego... I just want to know how 'interesting' my blog/posts are perceived to be. If you are a professional blogger or a blogger who plays to the gallery you could also use this info to tailor your posts to better suit the audience you are trying to target.

I just installed the latest kid on the metrics blog, Performancing metrics, on this blog. It is specifically targeted towards blogs... stats for my blog are yet to trickle in so I do not know what exactly that means but it will be interesting to see what stats are thrown up tomorrow. Most web stats packages are geared for use in general sites not necessarily blogs. They consequently do not have a number of metrics that make a lot of sense for blogs. Performancing metrics aims to fill in this gap.

So if you are reading this post in a browser I encourage you to go browse through a few more posts of mine. This is not an underhanded way of getting you to read more posts... no need to read if you do not want to... just go to some other posts so that enough stats are generated and the reports have enough data (though inaccurate). I encourage you to select some of the posts that appear on the sidebar towards your right.

I will probably post a review this weekend after the blog receives enough hits and some decent stats have been generated. Till then you can read these reviews at ProBlogger and Performancing.

By the way I am still waiting for my Google Analytics Invite to come in so if you have a spare Invitation Code lying around somewhere please email it to me.

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strange

Submitted by Shantanu (not verified) on Thu, 16/03/2006 - 2:23am.

I had submitted a comment here yesterday and it's still not showing up. any reason why?

you must have just previewed it

Submitted by varun on Thu, 16/03/2006 - 8:43am.

Nope. Comment moderation is not enabled and submitted comments should show up immediately. I guess you must have just previewed the comment and forgot to actually submit it.

But...

Submitted by Ramnath R Iyer (not verified) on Fri, 17/03/2006 - 11:19pm.

...for those who have just started blogging, keeping track of the stats may be very discouraging if the number of visitors falls short of expectation. Best to keep away from Performancing and the likes until the blog gets a decent audience. :-)

If more hits is what you're looking for, then the simplest way is to blog on the hottest topics of the day; Technorati is quite useful for this purpose. The second option would be to put a link to one of your posts on a high-traffic site like Slashdot and watch the number of hits shoot up over the next two days. Of course, this is only temporary.

Correct.

Submitted by varun on Mon, 20/03/2006 - 9:51am.

You are absolutely correct. When I was new to blogging I used to waste a lot of time checking up the stats and poring over the logs. I still do but to a much lesser extent.

Getting a link on a high-traffic site would require a blogger to write something of interest for that site as well as write something very good. And even if you do get linked most small sites (like mine) would get slashdotted within no time.

Currently my blog has around 15 regular reader who visit the site to read the blog and around 40 subscribers to the feed. So I exepct the overall figure to be around 20-30.

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