A request for advice, my dear readers: I’m independently hosted, and don’t have user-friendly stats tracking. Philocrites and ABT [2009-08-13. defunct blog; see Ministrare] mentioned their unique visitors at the end of last month, and now I want to play.
Recommended services?
My host provides some statistics, but counts visits to “philocrites.com” and “www.philocrites.com” separately. AddFreeStats provides more detail than I actually know what to do with, but allows me to see where people are visiting from. (This is extremely useful.) I just added SiteMeter because its free service allows me not to count my own visits to the site (in the service of deflation, you know).
Site meter is generally a pretty good stats tracker. And it is free.
My host provides fairly robust reporting, much more than I know what to do with. The most entertaining being search strings that have resulted in a hit to my site. My favorite so far has been “meditation instead of sleep”. Sorry, I don’t know anything about Site Meter.
I am glad you like it. A bit of intense discussion going on at the moment, but that is kind of what we like about it.
Welcome from the Antipodes, Dan. Like your site.