Monitoring Your Blogs Traffic Statistics

[Kuanyin]

I haven't tried Google Analytics, but I'm very happy with Statcounter. Sometimes I'm compulsive and check it a couple of times a day. Anyone else have this bad habit?

[scottfow]

I've heard AW Stats and Stat Counter from my friend. They say it's really nice and helpful.

[GeminiGeek]

Wordpress.com Stat definitely doesn't record your own visit, provided you're logged in. BUT, if you logged out from your admin account, your visit is counted. I did some testing when it was release to the public.

At the moment, I am using 3 traffic statistic:
1. Wordpress.com Stat
2. Google Analytics
3. MyBlogLog Stats

All 3 stat gives me different statistic. Different pageviews, different unique visitors. Google gave me highest pageview record, followed by WP.com Stat, and then MyBlogLog Stats.

I like all 3 of them. Google give me very detailed statistic on my visitors, such as browsers and screen resolution. I kinda like how my visitors browser changes in this few months. More people are using Firefox, though the mainstream is IE in my blog.

WP.com Stat is simple, and you can view them in your Wordpress Dashboard (which is great!). The thing I like about it is that you can view which blog entry is the most popular for the day.

And as for MyBlogLog stat, well, I only like the Click Tracker part. It gives you information on which ads is click and on which page it is clicked. This way, I know which ads is effective on which page, and I can place my ads effectively.

I love all 3 of them. Each have their own effectiveness, and I don't plan to ditch any of them. But will probably try a few new ones though. So is StatCounter good?

[Bloggeries]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has different stats for different programs.

I found AW-Stats, Statcounter than G.A regarding uniques and pageviews. Definitely quite bizarre but shows how it is important to have more than one source. For what it is worth however when selling a site it's most often AW-Stats that goes on the record as it's the most widely used.

Rob