Comments on: Comparing Web Statistics Services - Sitemeter, Go-Stats, Extreme-Tracker, 103Bees http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/04/11/comparing-web-statistics-services-sitemeter-go-stats-extreme-tracker-beeswork/ Politics, Commentary, Culture, Technology. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: admin http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/04/11/comparing-web-statistics-services-sitemeter-go-stats-extreme-tracker-beeswork/#comment-74 admin Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:29:18 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/04/11/comparing-web-statistics-services-sitemeter-go-stats-extreme-tracker-beeswork/#comment-74 Richard Thanks very much for your comments - I really appreciate the input. As I said, these are tentative conclusions. I'll be doing some more detailed comments at the end of a full week, when I should have a better set of data - something like 1000-1500 visits. This should also deal with any "time zone" problems. My experience on filtering webstats for larger (work) websites, is that - foe example - up to 25% of traffic on a site with 250,000 page views a month was bots of various sorts (including watch dogs). This was filtering against a list of several thousand ip addresses used by search engines etc. I'll be doing a more detailed comparison of the services offered at that point, and crunching my server logs in some detail - and inviting comment from the services. I need to get around to banning image and video / audio leechers. Once more - thanks for dropping in. Matt Richard

Thanks very much for your comments - I really appreciate the input.

As I said, these are tentative conclusions.

I’ll be doing some more detailed comments at the end of a full week, when I should have a better set of data - something like 1000-1500 visits. This should also deal with any “time zone” problems.

My experience on filtering webstats for larger (work) websites, is that - foe example - up to 25% of traffic on a site with 250,000 page views a month was bots of various sorts (including watch dogs). This was filtering against a list of several thousand ip addresses used by search engines etc.

I’ll be doing a more detailed comparison of the services offered at that point, and crunching my server logs in some detail - and inviting comment from the services.

I need to get around to banning image and video / audio leechers.

Once more - thanks for dropping in.

Matt

]]> By: Richard http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/04/11/comparing-web-statistics-services-sitemeter-go-stats-extreme-tracker-beeswork/#comment-73 Richard Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:36:52 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/04/11/comparing-web-statistics-services-sitemeter-go-stats-extreme-tracker-beeswork/#comment-73 <a href="http://gostats.com" rel="nofollow">GoStats.com</a> allows you to block your own PC from counting; you may miss a few of your own hits this way. -Another thing to note is the order of the counters on the page: if a person with a slow net connection is clicking quickly through your site, you may miss a hit or two most likely for the trackers lower down on your page. (however that doesn't explain the significant difference with the lower ones) -Server stats will always show more as it will include bots, image theifs, pings (or other non browser behavour) <strong>Matt - The Go Stats figures for yesterday (Wesnesday) were 138 visits/161 pages vs figures for my server stats (using the SlimStat plugin) of 164 visits - which are far closer than the figures in the report.</strong> GoStats.com allows you to block your own PC from counting; you may miss a few of your own hits this way.
-Another thing to note is the order of the counters on the page: if a person with a slow net connection is clicking quickly through your site, you may miss a hit or two most likely for the trackers lower down on your page. (however that doesn’t explain the significant difference with the lower ones)
-Server stats will always show more as it will include bots, image theifs, pings (or other non browser behavour)

Matt - The Go Stats figures for yesterday (Wesnesday) were 138 visits/161 pages vs figures for my server stats (using the SlimStat plugin) of 164 visits - which are far closer than the figures in the report.

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