Web Stats Addict (WSA)

May 27, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

It is public knowledge that I am a web stats addict. Web stats are a variable reward system that keep me coming back to check on my referrals, keyword searches, and recent visitor activity. I think Wendy is going to host a web stats intervention soon… Is anyone else hooked on their web stats?

Eric Stoller web site statistics from statcounter

More web stats goodness after the jump.

My post on United Airlines Ticket Vouchers continues (for 2 + years now!) to be the most popular post on my site with over 10,000 pageviews. In fact, that post has become a community within a community. It reached 80 comments yesterday and continues to generate pageviews, unique visits and comments. It really is the best source for dealing with United Airlines and their messed up voucher system. It’s a blog within a blog!

Other contenders (and by contender, I mean posts that only wish that they were the UA Voucher post ;) ) for the top post spot include:

Here’s a visual representation of my site’s pageviews and unique visits since June 2006. (Prior to June ‘06, my blog and its stats were on a different URL.)
Eric Stoller web site analytics from statcounter

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5 Comments for 'Web Stats Addict (WSA)'

  1.  
    Britt Q.
    May 28, 2008 | 2:56 am
     

    god, people will just read anything, won’t they? :) my blog stats are pitiful compared to yours… but i check them every other day!

  2.  
    May 29, 2008 | 7:03 pm
     

    I hear ya! Stats are like the warm fuzzies that justify the time I spend blogging. Besides they are also the one thing that bosses can’t ignore (well not as easily cause they definitely try). If I can show you hard data that this is going on then you can’t blame it on just a hunch.

  3.  
    July 5, 2008 | 1:28 pm
     

    […] I didn’t monitor my web stats in 2004 (shocker!), but here’s a snapshot of how my little blogging experiment has grown from 2005 to 2008: […]

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    December 31, 2008 | 3:54 pm
     

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  5.  
    August 23, 2009 | 4:15 pm
     

    […] As most of you know, I am an avid web statistics aficionado. The same day that the spammy comment was submitted (I moderate all new comments) I noticed two inbound referral links from a couple of Google Docs spreadsheets. My concerns that the comment was from a spammer were confirmed. In fact, I had stumbled upon two link spam documents that had been left open for anyone to see. A SEO company known as “Virtual Assistant” (link is to the Better Business Bureau listing…I love the irony!) was waging a concerted link spam campaign and my site had been “selected” for one of their spam comments. […]

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