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Okay, now, who did that? I have been looking at SiteMeter, Blogger's stats, and Google Analytics lately. I'm just trying to see what, generally, people read and how often people visit. But, well? Not one of them is even close to the other. Yesterday, for example, I am told by Blogger that I had 65 page visits, G.A. says I had 26 visitors but a ton of page visits, and S.M. suggests I had 110 visits with very few additional page views. Huh? Blogger and G.A. may, perhaps, be most closely aligned. Then again G.A. doesn't seem to count foreign, only US. Blogger suggests, for the week, about a third of my visits originated foreign countries, in Russia, the U.K., and seven other nations. Though S.M. doesn't seem to be showing foreign visits... let me check again, perhaps I'm looking at the wrong map... Nope, world map and location isn't showing any foreign visits. Of course, redirection... You never really know.
All I am saying is that not one of them matches the others all that well. For today, Blogger says 41 pageviews, S.M. says 30 visits with no extra pageviews per visit, and G.A. suggests 26 visitors with some extra views per visitor. Gah! Oh, and no, as I have said, I don't even try to trace viewer location with who, save if you tell me. Hmm, it seems what used to be Log. Ut. viewers have... all moved to Ogden. *grins* It's fun to watch folk switch things a bit. I don't know and I won't bother to snoop. I just look at the numbers. No, won't change what I write, or try to add extra stuff... If people like reading dreams, rants, and doings of a bug stuck to the to a board with a pin or three, they get what they get. Mostly.
I do try to put more music on now, rather than just find it, listen, and forget. Or find music to theme, and share. But... I ended up really enjoying that for myself, anyway. It's fun and I have found some music I simply would not have heard, and liked, some of it enough to buy. I have to wonder if I haven't introduced others to new music, music they had forgotten, and new ideas. Music, for me, when I can be awake enough to enjoy, is a true joy. Even the hard stuff... It helps, somehow.
Look at the IP address. That should match up visitors logged by one stat counter versus the other.
ReplyDeleteAlso, reported locations depend more upon how the stat counters interpret data from the ISP than anything the end users are doing.
It was funny to me that when I was using the satellite internet service out here, it would sometimes report me being in Cheyenne, WY, because that was the location of the satellite downlink. Now I get reported as being in various parts of southern Arizona, depending upon the whims of imprecise tracking algorithms.
Also, a lot of people do have anti-tracking software installed on their computers as part of their overall internet security measures. There is a lot of annoying targeted advertising that gets eliminated if you mask certain things. So, not just sneaky people spying on Doom ;P
Oh, I don't consider the spies... actually spies. My guess is government handlers and snoops are allowed to leave no traces. If there is spying, it is from "orgs" to which I have an association or such. A civil/social/religious thing. If, to, I think those readers either continue reading as typical readers or get miffed and bugger off before long.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I might try comparing IP's and figure things out that way. But like I said, I don't want to know who is where. Don't want to know. Tell me or not, I'm good with that, and at face value.
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out there. And while I know they are out there, I honestly don't (usually) care. I just fall into... a pit... from time to time. :p