Graphic from statcounter.com
Do you have a site meter installed on your blog? If so, do you get weekly reports? Every now and then I go through my statcounter.com Monday morning report, and although I'm not sure what some of the features mean or do, I'm getting better at deciphering the techno-hieroglyphics.
Like those information overload junkies on the Bing.com commercials, I love all the data, stats and graphs and pie chart graphics whizzing around in my head. Like the pie chart above which shows how long visitors stayed at my blog last week (from less than five seconds to more than an hour), it's all fascinating to me.
I like gazing at the world atlas and seeing little flags representing visitors' countries, seeing what things visitors downloaded and through which points on the blog they entered and exited.
My favorite stat is probably the keyword analytics. This function shows what words were plugged into search engines to bring folks to Gumbo Writer. I guess if I was a more savvy blog owner, I'd put more effort into post tags and titles to get more visitors. (Isn't that what's known as SEO?) But since I just like to write what I write, I don't concentrate on it. Are these things considerations for you when you post to your blog?
Here are a few recent breadcrumbs that lined the GumboWriter trail:
- tgif quotes
- gumbo writer boudreaux and thibodaux jokes
- best chicken recipe
- boudreaux and thibodaux jokes
- easy gumbo recipe
- boudreaux tib jokes
- best chicken recipes ever
- Did Margaret Mitchell drink from mason jars
- Beach Glass and other Things by Angie Ledbetter
- best+chicken+recipe
- "oh you dirty little devil"
- unusual trivia about food or fruits
- Boudreaux and Thibodaux
- quote tgif - thank god it's friday- because they can do what they really want to
- porch chops casserole
- melissa marsh meteorologist
- pasta for 40
- boo no the go
- mr wedding cakes king cakes
- TGIF poem
Some of the keywords make me smile or laugh out loud. It's like a puzzle; trying to figure out how someone put in certain words and ended up here. Was it on purpose, or pure happenstance? Fun to ponder!
There are lots of technical aspects of statcounter I don't make use of, but browsing through the categories every now and then is fun. Here's a list of some of the other functions available, and which maybe I'll dig into more thoroughly some day:
- Statistics
- Summary
- Popular Pages
- Entry & Exit Pages
- Came From
- Recent Keyword Activity
- Search Engine Wars
- Downloads & Download Activity
- Returning Visits
- Recent Pageload Activity
- Recent Visitor Map
If you use these functions at your blog, what's your favorite? And what use do you get from them?
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