Keyword analysis and HTTP referer - a real eye opener!
I’ve never really known how much traffic this blog or BritBlog gets. With BritBlog, the referrals that are due to the BritBlog icons that are plastered all over people’s blogs cloud the results in the web analytics software, Analog, that I use normally.
So anyway, I decided to try StatCounter. First impressions were good: it has a clean and intuitive (if not somewhat limited) interface, so this was a promising start. After an hour or so though, the free log space that you get was totally used up by BritBlog, and this meant that I couldn’t do any longer term analysis on things like search terms or referrers. This was a bit of a shame.
Being of a generous disposition though, I upgraded to one of the paid-for packages. It’s actually only a few quid for a month, and if it gives me some insight into how people are using BritBlog (or even this site), then it will be worth it.
One thing that surprised me straight away was the number of sex-related search terms that were coming through to the member interests pages. I’m not talking a few here - probably over 18% of people coming in from search engines are looking for something so do with sex. Quite an eye opener!
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June 14th, 2005 11:47
Have you tried NetTracker Lite?
June 14th, 2005 18:36
Hi George, that looks quite interesting. I’ll have to have a bit more of a play with it.
Cheers.
June 15th, 2005 19:33
why aren’t you using awstats ?
It’s the best one !
June 16th, 2005 11:32
I am constantly surprised how many people come to my site with the search string ‘massage, wales’. The mind boggles :).
No thoughts on counters I’m afraid, I was getting on well with reinvigorate, but they have been re-vamping and in the interim I’ve been using Seoblog - probably not high-powered enough for britblog tracking.
August 22nd, 2005 22:31
awstats is good, but slightly difficult. My choise - Webalizer (http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)