Comments on: Why I am dumping sitemeter (and you should too)

By: Jez

Jez — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:56:47 +0000

Ill have a look at statcounter, regarding analytics and other stat tools, I dont think they show you searches users have made on your site, well, not in an easy to interprate way. The advantage of sitemeter was that you could see what people were looking for on your site, which could prompt posts on a topic that was in demand, but you had not already covered.

It is useful to a point, but given the info provided above, I will also be dumping it, a bit of a shame they spoilt their plug in in this way.

MyBlog Log are doing something similar though and you still run their widget (as do I). I wrote a post on that a couple of weeks ago, with a link back to shoemoney where a more comprehensive post may be found (on MyBlog Log).

By: Manthem

Manthem — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:27:51 +0000

Yea.. Awstats is good, but it doesn’t provide you with enough information. Statcounter + Analytics covers pretty much everything.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:18:39 +0000

Firestats? Hmmm… I think I will have to look into that one.

By: Jon Lee

Jon Lee — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:55:52 +0000

I use Analytics, but you’re right you can’t get information as fast.

For real-time updates I like the Firestats plugin for wordpress.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:31:13 +0000

Hmm.. All the while I was using Awstats and Analytics. Good thing I didn’t use sitemeter though.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:59:32 +0000

I already use Google Analytics. I used sitemeter because it provided instant information, unlike Analytics.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:03:46 +0000

Hm, I never heard of sitemeter…Is it like analytics?

By: Ajith

Ajith — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:50:37 +0000

Why don’t you try analytics its marvelous

By: Wild Bluff Matt

Wild Bluff Matt — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:54:19 +0000

Yeah, the MBL pro stats are kinda ‘ehh’. They are great for seeing fresh stats, but overall it’s not so good.

By: Wild Bluff Matt

Wild Bluff Matt — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:53:15 +0000

Good to know. I need a backup to Analytics as well.