The year end always sees lots of people post meaningless stats about blog traffic. Unfortunately, I only have tracking data since my move to Bluehost in late September but I am not going to let that stop me. Google Analytics reports:-
- 4,709 visits
- 8,036 page views
- 1.71 pages per visit
- 3,902 unique visitors
[ Note the almost linear growth in visitors over the three months. It took me ages to get that perfect straight line ] Of course, these traffic numbers are bitterly disappointing so, to cheer myself up, I analyze the AwStats reports for the same period. This makes me feel much better.
- 13,738 visits
- 54,266 page views
- 68,858 hits (even better !)
- 3.95 pages per visit
- 6,002 unique visitors
AwStats includes robots, spiders, crawlers and spam automatons whereas Google Analytics only counts human beings (and cats). Worse, Google Analytics filters out my own visits and referrals from the WordPress dashboard (which accounts for 97% of traffic) ! Oh no. What’s this ? Feedburner are now offering even more blog tracking statistics and reports.