Comments on: On web counters and distraction

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:55:54 +0000

Seriously, consider the GoStats “alert”. when you have GoStats installed, you can configure the system to alert you when your traffic pattern changes (above or blow a certain threshold - at which point you should probably take a look at your site)

-But aside from the alert, you should shedule a time to review the metrics and performance of your site. (weekly, monthly or quarterly at least)

By: Stormy

Stormy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:08:14 +0000

When you do get the counter back, the wandering out on the ‘net and keeping in touch with those who link to you sounds like a good job to pass on to an employee.

Just learning at your knee…

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:09:14 +0000

I had the same problem, and it seems that I solved it now. I started using Google Analytics email reports. For each site that I want to know all about, I set up weekly (yes, weekly) reports to be emailed to me. They arrive all together in one bunch and it takes me about 20 minutes to go through them. The PDFs are nice and have all the data I care about, so I don’t even have to login to my Google Analytics account anymore (except those rare occasions when I want to really dig something out).

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:17:20 +0000

Ian: I’m guessing you’re talking more about the casual use of the web rather than it’s disruptive/democratizing power. I agree it’s a great place to waste time, though, if that’s what you want to do.

tezcatbus: Yeah, the site itself is indeed pretty heavy on resources, you’re not the first to mention it. We’re continuing to try to make it lighter, but when it comes right down to it, there’s just a lot going on to make it work. Nice to hear from you.

By: tezcatbus

tezcatbus — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:09:00 +0000

Hell, Mr. W. Mill,

I was suddenly reminded of the Mill and thought I’d look it up to see how you all were doing… last time I checked up on you, your apartment was on fire!

I am LOVING Ask500People. The only difficulty is that the map loads incredibly slowly, and it’s not like I don’t have decent system resources.

Love,

Girl-Who-Served-You-A-Terrible-Breakfast-Wrap-At-Cafe-De-La-Lune,

aka

Rachel

By: Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:48:29 +0000

I tend to Andrew Keen’s view of the web, its a great time waster but nothing has changed for the better because of it.

Well, gotta go and waste some time