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« He Hasn't Said No | Main | Coffee With Grover » August 3, 2005GrowthIt's been awhile since I looked at my traffic stats. July's number of unique visitors was up 42 percent over July 2004. Overall, BillHobbs.com drew an average of 27,896 readers per month in the first seven months of this year, up 25 percent over last year's 22,306 unique visitors per month. Total visits are up as well - 481,709 through the first seven months of 2005, up 30 percent over the 369,964 total visits in the first seven months of 2004. What's it mean? That more people are reading BillHobbs.com - and some of them are reading it more often. And the site, along with other Tennessee blogs focused on politics, is clearly having an impact. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. recently reversed his early support for the Supreme Court's Kelo decision after his poor record of support for private property rights was exposed by this blog, Blogging for Bryant and other blogs. Another indicator of the growing stature of blogs in the Tennessee political landscape: Ford's rival for the Democratic Senate nomination, state Sen. Rosalind Kurita, is now advertising on blogs.
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Just curious, but what stats package are you using? I use both webalizer and awstats on my servers and they tell different stories. Posted by: Jackson at August 3, 2005 08:05 PMAwstats. Also, SiteMeter and Bravenet. My hosting service also provides Webalizer, but I rely on Awstats. Do you think that's a mistake? What are your thoughts? Posted by: Bill Hobbs at August 3, 2005 08:18 PMI think awstats is better. I think it does a pretty good job of separating out the spiders (that are known) from what is presumed to be human readers. Are you tracking any stats on your RSS feeds? I pretty much only visit blogs to make comments, the rest if done via aggregators. I have been playing with getting stats from RSS too. Posted by: Jackson at August 3, 2005 09:01 PMAwstats provides stats on the number of times your RSS feed (and RDF and Atom feeds) are accessed. They treat them like they are any other internal page. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at August 3, 2005 09:10 PMYeah, but that is a poor representation of how many human eyes saw the piece. The reason is group aggregators, web based aggregators, etc. Let's say bloglines.com downloads your feed every hour (which is probably true). That is 24 page loads a day for your RSS feed. You have roughly 100 bloglines subscribers who view your feed. If they are each checking in only once a day then you are missing 76 hits and 99 unique visitors. And that is only one such service. The good news is that you probably have more readers than you think you do. Well, that is good news for you, but maybe bad news for me ;) Posted by: Jackson at August 3, 2005 09:42 PMThat's probably true. Sadly, my readers via RSS don't see the ads, so I can't charge my advertisers for those eyeballs. I wish all of those readers would visit the site instead! Posted by: Bill Hobbs at August 3, 2005 09:47 PMAh, good point. Can "product placement" be far behind? "I heard on Steve Gill something that made me think about voting for Kurita in 2006. Then I though maybe Submerge Media should do some web and graphic design..." Still wouldn't it be interesting to know how successful your feeds are at driving people to your site. Since a referral from Bloglines could mean it was a link in your feed or someone else's. Posted by: Jackson at August 3, 2005 09:55 PMI often click to sites from bloglines. I think I should get awstats. I only use Sitemeter, and I know that it is off. Posted by: brittney at August 4, 2005 07:44 AMPost a comment
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