Comments on: GIDBlog Analytics Error http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/ Another web site by J de Silva Sun, 20 May 2012 01:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: crystalattice http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-102 crystalattice Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:42:53 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-102 Well, here's a brief overview of how to view the pretty graphs. *The opening screen ("Dashboard") is pretty self explanatory. It gives you a concise overview of the big things people care about: day-to-day graph of visitors, summaries of various visit paramaters, a map of where people are coming from, how they're finding the site, and which pages are getting the most hits. *In the left column you can drill down for more in-depth info for visitors, traffic sources, content, and goals. Goals are more for businesses since they are used to determine certain benchmarks, e.g. how many visitors complete a purchase or register. There's a lot of information there but in reality a lot of it is redundant across the pages. Perhaps the most useful tools are the keyword searches and referring sites. They help you tweak any keywords on the site (more difficult with blogs) and you can see how people are finding your site. If you'll notice, the Firefox plugin "StumbleUpon" is a large traffic generator, currently ranked #4. This tool is simply a random Internet page generator, so a good chunk of the people visiting aren't directly looking for our content. Hope that answers some of your questions. Well, here’s a brief overview of how to view the pretty graphs.
*The opening screen (”Dashboard”) is pretty self explanatory. It gives you a concise overview of the big things people care about: day-to-day graph of visitors, summaries of various visit paramaters, a map of where people are coming from, how they’re finding the site, and which pages are getting the most hits.
*In the left column you can drill down for more in-depth info for visitors, traffic sources, content, and goals. Goals are more for businesses since they are used to determine certain benchmarks, e.g. how many visitors complete a purchase or register.

There’s a lot of information there but in reality a lot of it is redundant across the pages. Perhaps the most useful tools are the keyword searches and referring sites. They help you tweak any keywords on the site (more difficult with blogs) and you can see how people are finding your site. If you’ll notice, the Firefox plugin “StumbleUpon” is a large traffic generator, currently ranked #4. This tool is simply a random Internet page generator, so a good chunk of the people visiting aren’t directly looking for our content.

Hope that answers some of your questions.

]]> By: J de Silva http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-101 J de Silva Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:58:00 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-101 Do what I do, just look at the pretty graphs... :P Seriously, I don't spend a lot of time on Google Analytics usually. In other words, I don't know much about it either. The only thing that I use Google Analytics for is to find out which search engine is doing what for the site. Do what I do, just look at the pretty graphs… :P

Seriously, I don’t spend a lot of time on Google Analytics usually. In other words, I don’t know much about it either.

The only thing that I use Google Analytics for is to find out which search engine is doing what for the site.

]]> By: dsmith http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-100 dsmith Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:52:18 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-100 Quote J: "If you manage a web log here at GIDBlog, then you know you can view the stats for this site via Google Analytics." :( I don't know how to view the stats. Quote J: “If you manage a web log here at GIDBlog, then you know you can view the stats for this site via Google Analytics.”

:( I don’t know how to view the stats.

]]> By: J de Silva http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-21 J de Silva Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:25:46 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-21 Considering that we started this web log site slightly over a month ago, I think we're not doing too bad. The site is growing at a healthy rate, content-wise, i.e. about 2 "stories" per day average. All we need is another 3 or 4 active bloggers on board and the growth rate for this site would surpass even that of GIDForums. Now, wouldn't <i>that</i> be something! Considering that we started this web log site slightly over a month ago, I think we’re not doing too bad.

The site is growing at a healthy rate, content-wise, i.e. about 2 “stories” per day average. All we need is another 3 or 4 active bloggers on board and the growth rate for this site would surpass even that of GIDForums. Now, wouldn’t that be something!

]]> By: cableguy http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-20 cableguy Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:30:59 +0000 http://gidblog.com/blog/2007/06/03/gidblog-analytics-error/#comment-20 That's odd. I have a sore back and couldn't figure out why.... Must have been from carrying the heavy load. :) But seriously now. I am curious to see how the numbers ramp up. What are there, seven of us now. We should see a jump now that everyone is in the game. That’s odd. I have a sore back and couldn’t figure out why….
Must have been from carrying the heavy load. :)

But seriously now. I am curious to see how the numbers ramp up. What are there, seven of us now. We should see a jump now that everyone is in the game.

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