Tag: Web usage statistics
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Occam’s Razor 2016 statistics
It’s a brand new year but it’s already looking a lot like 2016 with a terrorist incident killing dozens in Istanbul. I won’t reprise 2016 here, but I will do my annual look at my blog’s statistics and usage in 2016 to see what people were reading. I’m keeping it succinct this year. When I…
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Occam’s Razor 2015 Statistics
I only analyze my blog’s statistics annually, usually on January 1 for the previous year. The more I study web statistics however, the more I realize that they can lead you astray. For example, about 50% of my web hits come from referrals from search engines. This explains why my most popular web content is…
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Occam’s Razor 2014 Statistics
Before I begin blogging in earnest for 2015, a look at this blog’s statistics for 2014. My web browser traffic has been on the downturn for years, but at least in 2014 that problem has been arrested, although modestly, with a 7% increase in visitors compared with 2013. According to Google Analytics: Overall 2014 Web…
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Occam’s Razor 2013 Statistics
2013 was not a great year for this blog, at least in the way of demonstrating impressive web statistics. Web statistics here have been on the decline for several years now. However, it’s not all bad news. Readership via subscription is up substantially, and these readers tend to be “regular customers” rather than “drive by…
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Occam’s Razor 2012 Statistics
January 1st means I spend some time pondering my usage statistics for the last year. I spent some time on this last month when the blog officially turned ten years old. I’ll try not to repeat myself too much. Measured by direct web traffic, 2012 sucked. Measuring subscriber usage and social media usage shows a…
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It’s official: SiteMeter no longer gives a damn
Once upon a time when you wanted to meter your site, SiteMeter was the only solution. I started metering my blog with SiteMeter around 2004 because that’s what all the cool blogs were doing. Not that my “impressions” (page views) were ever that impressive, at least according to SiteMeter. Their meter went up and down…
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Occam’s Razor 2011 Statistics
I usually start off the year with a set of blog statistics from the previous year. However, this year I was on a cruise ship on New Year’s Day, and in fact I was off the ‘Net for over a week. So it’s time to catch up with the state of the blog. A quick…
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Web statistics are untrustworthy
Like many site owners, I monitor my web traffic. And every year I rediscover what Disraeli discovered long ago. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. The problem with web statistics is it is often hard to discern who is lying and by how much. Most of us site owners care…
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