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ht_murrayThis isn't fandom related. Just something I'm wondering that's probably completely pointless to post on a Saturday night right before I leave for work, but I'm going to do it anyway.
With regard to statcounters and pingbacks.
Firstly, I don't think LJ has worked the kinks out of their pingback feature yet. On my last two big posts I posted them privately in my journal while I worked on them and then made a current post linking back to them so the dates would be accurate for future reference. I know that's anal, but whatever. Anyway, I got pingback notifications for the links I posted in my own journal to links further down in my own journal. I found that amusing. But on both those entries, I have found (by browsing comms and other journals) that those posts have been linked back to many times and I have only received a notification for one. The posts I found where I was linked were at least public enough for me to read, so I don't think it's an issue of them being linked in a locked post or anything. Anyone care to venture what's up with that? Just an LJ glitch?
And statcounters.
I have a few. The most obvious one is the sitemeter in my sidebar, which y'all can't see without going to my actual journal page since I have custom comment pages disabled. Here's the thing. Every week I get a little update on that. And the numbers are downright puny.
For example, it said, on the day I posted that fic, that I had 72 hits to my whole journal. o_O I also have an invisible counter on certain entries. The invisible counter said I had over 1600 hits that day, just to those two entries. Mostly to the one, but a few to the other.
Here's what I think the issue is. I think when I set up the sitemeter, I set it up to record only new or unique hits. I did that because I know most of the hits on my journal on days when I'm not posting fic are me. I don't mind it counting me once, but I don't want to be counted twenty times in one day. I think I assumed, (wrongly) that it would record unique hits within a certain time frame, like within 24 hours or so. I now believe it is only recording unique hits altogether. So, once you've been to my journal for anything, you're counted and will never be counted again.
Could that be the case? I just cannot figure out any other reason why I get so few hits on my sitemeter.
On the one hand, it looks bad, lol, in case people actually look at that and compare.
On the other, I get 38 unique hits a day on average. And over 14000 unique computers have visited my LJ.
So, um, my question is, what statcounters do y'all use, and which do you find the most helpful?
That is all. Going to work now.
With regard to statcounters and pingbacks.
Firstly, I don't think LJ has worked the kinks out of their pingback feature yet. On my last two big posts I posted them privately in my journal while I worked on them and then made a current post linking back to them so the dates would be accurate for future reference. I know that's anal, but whatever. Anyway, I got pingback notifications for the links I posted in my own journal to links further down in my own journal. I found that amusing. But on both those entries, I have found (by browsing comms and other journals) that those posts have been linked back to many times and I have only received a notification for one. The posts I found where I was linked were at least public enough for me to read, so I don't think it's an issue of them being linked in a locked post or anything. Anyone care to venture what's up with that? Just an LJ glitch?
And statcounters.
I have a few. The most obvious one is the sitemeter in my sidebar, which y'all can't see without going to my actual journal page since I have custom comment pages disabled. Here's the thing. Every week I get a little update on that. And the numbers are downright puny.
For example, it said, on the day I posted that fic, that I had 72 hits to my whole journal. o_O I also have an invisible counter on certain entries. The invisible counter said I had over 1600 hits that day, just to those two entries. Mostly to the one, but a few to the other.
Here's what I think the issue is. I think when I set up the sitemeter, I set it up to record only new or unique hits. I did that because I know most of the hits on my journal on days when I'm not posting fic are me. I don't mind it counting me once, but I don't want to be counted twenty times in one day. I think I assumed, (wrongly) that it would record unique hits within a certain time frame, like within 24 hours or so. I now believe it is only recording unique hits altogether. So, once you've been to my journal for anything, you're counted and will never be counted again.
Could that be the case? I just cannot figure out any other reason why I get so few hits on my sitemeter.
On the one hand, it looks bad, lol, in case people actually look at that and compare.
On the other, I get 38 unique hits a day on average. And over 14000 unique computers have visited my LJ.
So, um, my question is, what statcounters do y'all use, and which do you find the most helpful?
That is all. Going to work now.
