Comments on: Decipher your web stats: 7 terms you need to know

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:06:26 +0000

Thanks for this! I was just wondering about it… One question, if you have figured it out: which stats service have you found more accurate?

Best.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:34:45 +0000

See how confusing all this is? Man. I’ll never figure it out.

Thanks for helping, folks.

By: Mark McClure Coaching

Mark McClure Coaching — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:14:06 +0000

AFAIK your computer requests an IP address from your ISP – and this includes a “lease time” (say, 48 hours). It usually just renews the lease before expiry and thus you’ll see the same IP address.

At least that’s how it works here in Japan with the broadband link to my house.

In days of yore I had modem dialup access and got a new IP address (within a certain range) each time I dialed in.

Re the Spiders… yes, I’m thinking of blocking some of those “unknown ones” but it’s not a high priority task at present. Yahoo’s Slurp is particularly greedy on my sites!

By: Mary@SimplyForties

Mary@SimplyForties — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:58:08 +0000

Thanks for the information. I’m not sure bounce rate is too important if you are not selling anything. If your readers are regular visitors to your page it would make sense that they would stop in and read just the new post and not go anywhere else. Depending on the length of your post, they might not stay too long either. Also, my read of the way FeedBurner calculates feed subscriptions is that it is not an actual count but some sort of algorithm they use that is based on the likely percentage of your visitors would subscribe to your feed. That’s why it can change substantially from day to day. My understanding is that the e-mail subscription count is the only one that is a true count.

By: carla

carla — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:28:58 +0000

Thanks for this list! This is helpful for me to determine whats real and what isnt.