Our Statistics, December 2019
Ask anyone who has a website and they will tell you that some of the most important things you can do are, to monitor visitors to your site and pay attention to the stats. I did not know much when I began 20 years ago, but I sure have learned. The present statistics available are fine for big web sites with thousands of hits per day but not for small stuff such as mine, They even give me how many hits I get from various countries around the world. I don't really care if no one reads my blogs from Nigeria or Afghanistan, What is very important to me is Waianae, the North Shore, Honolulu, Most web sites no longer have hit counters on their sites.They cannot see any benefit.
Blogger Statistics lead the way to the mess. They have all kinds of statistics, where they come from, the operating system used used and dozens of other gimmicks. And they include scam, spam, robot hits which mean nothing for the Bloggers doing blogs. In fact they are detrimental to our data. If you inquire you can almost see their attitude. Their heads lean back a little and their eyelids close slightly as they pronounce from on high, "They don't exist." Wow! They are erratic and perhaps that is the only way to record them,
If you can get something close to the real thing, stats can be a very useful and valuable tool in getting your blog site optimized. They can tell you if changes you make are having a positive or negative effect on traffic. One of the best things existing at the moment is that some web and blog masters ignore stats and just "fly by the seat of their pants". "Anything that can be measured can be improved" but you can't improve anything unless you can measure it. And the stats we have available at present just do not have give me what I think I should have. For now we can be somewhat skeptical.
Ask anyone who has a website and they will tell you that some of the most important things you can do are, to monitor visitors to your site and pay attention to the stats. I did not know much when I began 20 years ago, but I sure have learned. The present statistics available are fine for big web sites with thousands of hits per day but not for small stuff such as mine, They even give me how many hits I get from various countries around the world. I don't really care if no one reads my blogs from Nigeria or Afghanistan, What is very important to me is Waianae, the North Shore, Honolulu, Most web sites no longer have hit counters on their sites.They cannot see any benefit.
"Social dancers believe that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
and you must be the change you wish to see in the world."
and you must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Blogger Statistics lead the way to the mess. They have all kinds of statistics, where they come from, the operating system used used and dozens of other gimmicks. And they include scam, spam, robot hits which mean nothing for the Bloggers doing blogs. In fact they are detrimental to our data. If you inquire you can almost see their attitude. Their heads lean back a little and their eyelids close slightly as they pronounce from on high, "They don't exist." Wow! They are erratic and perhaps that is the only way to record them,
"Sweet Someone" by Don Ho
If you can get something close to the real thing, stats can be a very useful and valuable tool in getting your blog site optimized. They can tell you if changes you make are having a positive or negative effect on traffic. One of the best things existing at the moment is that some web and blog masters ignore stats and just "fly by the seat of their pants". "Anything that can be measured can be improved" but you can't improve anything unless you can measure it. And the stats we have available at present just do not have give me what I think I should have. For now we can be somewhat skeptical.
“Social dancers believe that you should be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
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