I've been using statcounter to track visitors to this site for a few years now. While my site5 hosting also provides awstats I prefer StatCounter as it uses javascript for the tracking and so is less likely to track bots and other rubbish.
The free statcounter service used to show the details of the last 100 visitors to a site. My site gets around 1000 visitors a day so 100 visitors is maybe two hours worth. Statcounter have now increased this limit to 500 visitors which is more like half a day and consequently more interesting.
Currently the most popular page is this one about using T_hunderbird with M_icrosoft exchange (see what I did there? don't want this page getting those hits). This page about f_ence sprayers has had a lot of traffic recently, it being spring and folk wanting to paint their fences. There don't appear to be many public forums for people to air their f_ence spraying grievances and this has become one.
Remember the search engine wars? Here is a status report:
| Hits | Percentage | Winner/Loser |
|---|---|---|
| 337 | 98.83% | |
| 4 | 1.17% | Yahoo! |
If I were yahoo I'd drop the exclamation mark. Microsoft are nowhere to be seen.
I get lots of World of Warcraft related hits, lets look at some recent wow related searches:
- how to get skill up in weapons faster in wow
- wow daily quest
- wow g11 g15
- good way to earn sara armor
- winterfall flight path
- tanaris to ungoro crater foot
- world of warcraft fast firing ammo bag
- good prot aoe spots
- how to use the g15 in wow
- titan panel download patch 2.1
- heroic tactics
(that last one was wide of the mark).
It makes me wish all this info was nicely laid out and not in the heavy stream of consciousness format.
The warcraft stuff has boosted the page rank of this site to four which increased the number of visitors a day by about three or four hundred.
I'm not getting a kickback from Statcounter but despite that I still recommend them.
Thanks for coming.
Peter's Moblog
Ya know, I stumbled across this site googling "wow paladin blog", once I found it I just googled "peter wow blog".
Have since added it to the bookmarks of all the computers I use in the world. Your site is my favorite for reading everyday. Don't ask why. You don't offer any great insights on my Wow experience, but your writing style is easy to read I suppose.
Good day to you.