Comments on: Google analytics sucks

By: Google Analytics: The Darker Side | ProgrammerFish

Google Analytics: The Darker Side | ProgrammerFish — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:47:49 +0000

[...] …During the last week, there was one unique visitor to NunnaYerBizness… [...]

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:54:05 +0000

I have now lined up Sitemeter as the next package. I installed yesterday the stat package designed for Wordpress, which is the software I’m running. Also, I didn’t have to sign up for advertizing. So far Nunnayerbizness is virginal from an advertizing point of view, if we except the pitches for my very own poetry chapbooks. You do have a copy, don’t you?

Now I’m playing ketchup. Fries, anyone?

By: MelissaZamora

MelissaZamora — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:47:21 +0000

I concur with Merovingian. Sitemeter does the job.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:41:15 +0000

I decided to run Wordpress Stats for a while to see if that gives me a little clearer information. This is a Wordpress site, so it may in fact be geared correctly.
I looked over site meter and it looks good, but I’d be inserting code into existing files. I don’t mind doing that necessarily–Google Analytics requires it– but right now I’m playing catchup with code in general (I can’t believe I have “Wordpress for Dummies” but that’s the book the Wordpress folks recommend). Then there’s style sheets to conquer and php, too. I learned HTML in the nineties and wrote it for a couple of years until folks started developing WYSIWYG editors. I kept my hand in some by teaching HTML to 8th graders, but didn’t keep up with developments. Now I’m playing catchup, as I said.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:17:28 +0000

Well, thank you, one and all. And thank you, Merovingian, I’ll try that one next. Google is for slightly more massive sites than I’m managing.

And I’m beginning to know how difficult it’s going to be getting actual data from the city. And potentially costly —Dime a page for copying, of course, but fourteen an hour for clerical support.

I had a brief meeting with THE power in Brownsville, yesterday, City Secretary Estela Von Hatten. Politicians come and go. She stays. She knows where the bones are, I think.

She said I’d have the data. Or at least an estimate of the cost of the data. The price of citizenship, I guess.

By: The Merovingian

The Merovingian — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:04:24 +0000

Sitemeter I have no clue how much html Wordpress allows, but embeding sitemeter code will probably do what you wish. I, too, read them all. Every once in a while, I even have something to say. On your trying to find how much money has been unnecessarily re-spent, good luck. They have repaved part of Price Rd 3 times in the last year. "Of course I know. It is my business to know"-The Merovingian

By: Ed Stapleton

Ed Stapleton — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:30:56 +0000

I check in at least once a day.

No solipsism for me. I’m far too solesequious, just like those big Kansas flowers. If you are naturally solicitous, solipsism will drive you to solitarianism.

How much solace could a solipsist slop if a solipsist could slop solace?

By: Patricia A

Patricia A — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:52:11 +0000

I do a check of all the local blogs daily, including yours. Perhaps your site is counting how many people logged in, which is different from how many stopped by to read what was available.