Steve over at Bowblog has been wondering about his stats. He's getting 11,000 unique visitors a month. Which impresses the hell out of me. I don't think I can tell that from Typepad. They tell me I'm getting about 200 hits a day which seems pathetic by comparison. Though there's more at ebcb.
But, anyway, I've been obsessing about something else. I've been using bloglines a lot recently. Splendid service. One of the things it does is tell you how many people are using them to subscribe to a feed from your site. For ages it's been 57 people for russelldavies.com. But just yesterday I've noticed that it's now 56. I've lost someone! And it's obsessing me. What happened? What did I say? There's quite a low barrier to just leaving the subscription there so they must have very actively deleted me. it's quite depressing.
Oh well.
every so often i tend to clean my bloglines feeds (130 is too many to keep up with). what's the deletion criteria? the ones i don't read get the axe. i could leave them but the clutter is sometimes too much to deal with. russell, i doubt this traitor deleted you for any other reason other than he/she has too many feeds and just didn't read your posts enough.
cheers
Posted by: ritter | June 16, 2005 at 01:42 PM
But according to bloglines Steve has just 47 subscribers - so you should be getting more traffic than him. Getting hard data is, well, hard in the blog world.
Still with just 16 subs I get a 6% increase in audience the next time someone signs up at Big Picture.
Posted by: Simon Andrews | June 16, 2005 at 02:40 PM
Simon,
I just tried to subscribe to Big Picture via Bloglines. Couldn't do it. It says there's no RSS feed. Am I doing something wrong?
Posted by: russell | June 16, 2005 at 02:49 PM
thankyou ritter (is that rude to just call you that?) I know that's probably true. But it's still a little galling - ideally I'd like it to be going up, not down.
Still, personally, I'm staggered that i've even got to 57. Or, rather, 56.
Posted by: russell | June 16, 2005 at 02:56 PM
I suggest you use www.statcounter.com too. Typepad is just too basic.
Posted by: Piers Fawkes | June 16, 2005 at 03:59 PM
thanks Piers, good shout, something else to play with.
Posted by: russell | June 16, 2005 at 04:26 PM
i've had to cut down on what i show on the old stat counter as it was getting full of referrer spam which is a shame.
stats for last month are here: http://www.funkypancake.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?month=05&year=2005
the search engine lookups are the funniest/disturbingest thing.
i hadn't realised Bloglines tells you how many subscribers a site has. have you seen what things are 'related sites' to yours ?
mine are the Guardian and BBC news !
what a wonderful virtual world we live in.
Posted by: funkypancake | June 16, 2005 at 08:04 PM
"For ages it's been 57 people for russelldavies.com. But just yesterday I've noticed that it's now 56. I've lost someone! And it's obsessing me. What happened? What did I say? There's quite a low barrier to just leaving the subscription there so they must have very actively deleted me. it's quite depressing".
OK RUSSELL, YOU´RE BACK TO 57 AGAIN. . . .
Cheers
Rodney
Posted by: Rodney Tanner | June 17, 2005 at 04:39 PM
hurrah! thankyou Rodney
Posted by: russell | June 20, 2005 at 01:18 AM
I think this should work - http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/index.rdf
I've subscribed via bloglines myself so it should work
A 7% audience increase - oh joy!
Posted by: Simon Andrews | June 20, 2005 at 10:56 AM