Posts Tagged ‘analytics’

Google Analytics is a leading website statistics service provider. It provides accurate, relatively up-to-date information on the visitors to your website, where they are coming from, and what they are accessing.

Many other tools exist for this but have problems. Performance is the main problem, as most applications run server-side and process the web server’s logs gradually, which can be incredibly process intensive. This is why Google Analytics, even though it requires a piece of Javascript on every page which would seem efficient, tends to be a great solution for many websites.

Can I exclude myself from Google AdSense and Analytics Stats?

Answer: We currently do not know of a way to do this. You may be asking this for a few different reasons, but whatever the reason, the answer is always “it’s not important”, so just don’t worry about it.

  • If you are worried about accidentally making false impressions, don’t worry – Google AdSense is very good at tracking you and not actually giving you credit for those impressions.
  • If you are trying to get valuable statistics without yourself or your staff’s traffic interfering with those reports, whether it be # of impressions through AdSense or more detailed statistics within Analytics, we recommend not to worry about it. If you are getting so little traffic that your own traffic actually affects your statistics, then you just need more traffic. Try some SEO.
  • The crappiest reason is if you are trying to make false impressions for the purpose of profit, stop being dumb! Not only will Google identify you and ban you immediately, but you’ll probably be blacklisted from Google forever.

Remember, there is a reason Google does things the way it does, and it usually makes sense, so don’t question it. Labels in GMail may be an exception to that rule.

Monitor your site’s traffic: Ignorance vs. Bliss

The truth about traffic monitoring is that it’s not as valuable as most people will want you to believe. Yes, that’s right. You should keep an eye on it, but don’t pay more than 5 minutes of attention to it each month.

Some nerds, webmasters and seo experts just got so pissed that they closed this article. That’s good, they’re out of the way and now we can talk blasphemy and witchcraft!

“Traffic” is a summary statistics. “Summary statistics” attempt to describe something that is occurring in the real world, but they usually fall short. Changes in traffic are also summary statistics. It’s important to treat Traffic as such, and to understand a variety of different statistics in order to evaluate your website’s success. (more…)