As you know, we’re all for transparency here at BMG, which is why I keep everyone up to date on our traffic. But we’re also all for not making more work for ourselves than is necessary. So, instead of my going through the exercise of uploading a screenshot from statcounter every week, I thought we might try something different. I’ve created a new BMG sitemeter account – you’ll see the link in the “About” box. Just click the new “Traffic report” link in the “About” box, and you’ll be able to create your own weekly, monthly, or whatever-ly traffic report you desire.
Of course, since I just created the sitemeter account a few minutes ago, there’s not much there yet. Give it a few days to get itself up and running. Unfortunately, there’s no way to transfer the data from statcounter into sitemeter, so the sitemeter account will be useful only going forward. UPDATE: I really am an idiot sometimes. Never mind sitemeter. Statcounter also has an option to allow anyone to view the site’s statistics. (Plus, the statcounter bug goes SO much better with our site’s color scheme!) That’s what’s up there now.
Seem reasonable to everyone?
Finally, just to close the loop, here’s the traffic report for the last two weeks (I forgot to post it last weekend).
peter-porcupine says
You CAN create a ‘floor’ so you aren’t starting out at #1 – that’s what I did when I switched.
david says
but it just lists it as a note at the bottom of the page: “Plus x visitors before signing on with sitemeter.” Doesn’t show up in the sitemeter stats other than that, as far as I can tell.
ataridemocrat says
What counts as a “unique visitor” for stat counter?
david says
is, according to statcounter’s cookie, either someone who has never been to BMG before, or who is returning for another visit more than 2 hours after the last visit.
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Imperfect, but it’s what’s available!
ataridemocrat says
how these numbers are counted. There seems to be no standard, I know Sitemeter counts a new visit whenever a user hasn’t loaded a page for half an hour.
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Thanks for the info.
david says
we can set the amount of time required to count someone as a “unique visitor.” I arbitrarily chose 2 hours, since that strikes me as a reasonable interval in which someone might check in, go off and do something else, and then check back to see if anything new had happened, which seems to me to qualify as a new visit. In my brief foray into sitemeter, I couldn’t find a place where we had the option to set that time interval.