Weekly Blogspirit Suggestions
Feedreader and Referrer Statistics
Since Blogspirit offers the syndication with common protocols (RSS or Atom), I wondered about who was reading the blog secretly during my absence. I believe it might become some useful information to keep track of the software by recording the user-agents similar to the operating-system statistics, or websites in general which might use php or other server processes to implement the blog’s content. Additionally, a general and unlimited list of referrers would aid the idea to control the interlinking of the content written in our blogs. Overall, this might help to understand how much circulation, hits and click-thrus are generated by these feeds.
That’s a great idea! Especially the click-thru’s, I use to have a domain and could never figure out why there was no support. I get better service and stats from free services; if I knew then what I know now, I coulda saved a lot of money. Nice post‘, keep those ideas flowing in that awesome brain of yours! Have a good evening.
Dear Sinann,
I believe it is always the best way to use one server (of course Blogspirit.com) to create all statistics the users might need. It depends of course on the usability for Blogspirit and the users both. But in general, they have already statistics – and with all respect to the ammount of work – these statistics can be evaluated as much for the feeds as for the current urls.
Long ago, I used to program such tools (log readers and evaluation software) on my own, but began to loose grip and interest as I discontinued this particular idea of keeping track of every single click. Fortunately, my obsession came to an end there. Nevertheless, I do not plan to implement obsolete methods like images from external hosts just to keep track of the sites.
Best regards
Mike