New And Exciting Stats

Brad Feld...Has an interesting post on blog statistics....

I love stats (also know to serious people as “analytics.”)  In the past, I’ve written about the variety of stats packages I use and track regularly (e.g. at least daily.)  Today, FeedBurner came out with an upgrade to its stats that add a number of new things, including uncommon uses, the concept of “reach”, and item popularity.   Mike Arrington at Techcrunch has a comprehensive post up with screen shots - rather than repeat this here, I’ll simply point you there to take a look.

• FeedBurner: Core RSS feed and page view metrics


• AWStats: Core page view metrics


• Google AdSense: Page views by channel, ad click throughs


• Amazon: Online purchase metrics


• Bloglet: Email subscribers


• MyBlogLog: Outbound link tracking


• MeasureMap: Inbound / outbound link tracking (in alpha)


• Technorati: More link tracking


• Feedster: Even more link tracking

Here’s the new list as of today:

• FeedBurner: Core RSS feed, page view metrics, item views, reach, and email stats


• BlogBeat: Core page view metrics (plus feed data via integration with FeedBurner API)


• Google Analytics: Page views


• Amazon: Online purchase metrics


• MyBlogLog: Outbound link tracking


• Technorati: More link tracking

I’ve dumped the others for the following reasons:  

• AWStats: Stats weren’t telling me much


• Google AdSense: Google Analytics (and now BlogBeat) gives me much better data


• Bloglet: I dumped Bloglet and use FeedBlitz, which has stats integration with FeedBurner


• MeasureMap: Slow, wrong data, and now part of Google (hence I expect integration into Google Analytics someday)


• Feedster: Increasingly irrelevant / redundant data

Yes – less is more in this case (since I’m getting a lot more data from the services I’m using as they evolve.)

[Via Feld Thoughts]