Too many tasks squeezing into the available time

[karen2205]

But good things - bought files + bits to sort GFIs

Egg refunded me that money on 30/01/04, so no need to worry about that.

Ordered a cheque book/changed address with the Nationwide (they had flat 5 down as flat 1).

Now, am learning about Vim in a Vim IRC channel:-)

Need to have another play with SSI.

Can any of you tell me what I can do with the stats I get from my websites? What use is knowing how many people visited/which browswers they used etc?

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The 'what browser' figure will be wrong anyway, as some browsers lie about they identity (as a matter of necessity).

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[karen2205]

Why?

Is this 'cos some sites refuse to supply pages to browsers that don't identify themselves as IE?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's exactly why.

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[karen2205]

ooh, I'm learning:-)

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[daweaver.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the most interesting thing your visitor logs will show is from where people are coming. Which sites link into yours, which drive the most traffic, what search engine terms lead your way.

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[karen2205]

Yeah, I can see the referring sites - though not the search terms used - if I could I could at least add those to the meta tags.

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[puzzlering.livejournal.com]

odd you can't see the search terms used - isn't it in the referer URL (eg for google 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%22search+term...')?

it can be useful to see daily spikes in your total number of hits - i've seen spikes in logs and only later connected them with a particular one-off action. browser/OS/etc generally tell you nothing of use.

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[karen2205]

No, it's definitely not there - I just get
http://www.google.co.uk
http://search.yahoo.com

etc etc.

And even that might not be entirely accurate since people can forge referring sites.

I've noticed a couple of spikes, but since the traffic is so low at the moment they seem to be caused by a couple of individuals deciding to look through the pages - except where there's an obvious cause eg. where I've asked people to look at the site to tell me what's wrong with it.