The Wardman Wire

This is a very quick reminder for those of you who are interested in my articles about finding alternatives for the Sitemeter statistics service, after Sitemeter started serving 3rd party tracking cookies.

I have reported briefly on Go Stats, Extreme Tracker, StatCounter and 103Bees.

Today is the end of the month, when all good bloggers analyse their statistics.

Advice For Uses of Extreme Tracker and 103 Bees

My experience was that these stwo ervice were likely to be seriously underestimating your traffic - so you may be seriously underclaiming traffic or undercharging for adverts etc. I suggest running a comparison in May. But the comparison counter needs to be installed today.

I will give more detailed results later this week, but - for comparison purposes over the whole month of May - I recommend that you install a StatCounter in your template. StatCounter performed far better than these two services, and may be used invisibly.

This will allow you to make a private comparison over the whole of May, and may give a better traffic estimate.

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