December 14, 2006
Blog Stats Rollout
Earlier this summer, we acquired Blogbeat, the nifty blog statistics product, and we're happy to announce that the work of porting the service to our architecture and interface is complete. If you are a current BlogBeat customer, the blog stats team will be contacting you over the next week about enabling your FeedBurner account for testing the service. If you are a FeedBurner user who loves our feed stats and would love love love to use our new blog stats service, we say to you, "oh so soon!" Love is fleeting but statistics are forever. We want to get feedback from the first couple dozen Blogbeat customers we convert and make sure things are working smoothly and consistently before we open up the service to the rest of the world.
What will FeedBurner site statistics include? Plenty!
- Page Views and estimated unique visitors
- Detailed 'by visitor' statistics
- Incoming links including search query referrals and site link referrals
- Outbound links and counts
- City Cloud map of visitors (but alas, no Cloud City)
- More. Really? More? Yes, Really.
Here are a few screenshots to tide you over for the next couple weeks, just to get a sense for how things will look and feel when you use FeedBurner to track your site statistics. As you would expect, it looks a lot like your FeedBurner feed stats dashboard. (Click thumbnails below to view larger images.)
Blog Stats Dashboard
Recent Visitor Detail (with IP addresses elegantly blurred through the miracle of MS Paint)
Visitor Summary and City Cloud
Next Steps
We'll probably take the end of the year to sort out the kinks, bugs, and whatnot reported by the first wave of users, and then we'll open things up to everybody right after the New Year assuming no major troubles. There will then be a series of shorter iterations in order to roll out some follow-on services that we've already identified.
Comments
YES! I dunno how you guys release product so fast but I can't wait to plug this into my blog if it's half as good as your feed stats. Sooner the better!
Super Super! Finally stats geared toward the interests of bloggers. What's it going to cost?
Does it come for free ?
More "added value!" You keep on spoiling us, don't you?
Don, Mel and everyone -
All of this new blog stat goodness will be part of our free StandardStats service, included with every burned feed.
So that's why Blogbeat has been cranky and epileptic the past couple of days!
Hope we can get our stats back asap. You know we luv em!!!!
I have been a Blogbeat user for some time and I like the fact I can see my non-subscriber traffic through through Blogbeat. Will you be able to see your subscriber and non-subscriber traffic side by side?
Yeah! is a great news. Good work
Oh, goody! I cannot wait for this kind of statistics!
But will it by servers-side or client-side (JavaScript)?
Hi Ron -
Subscriber and non-subscriber data are both reflected in the new integrated offering, but not yet side by side. Stay tuned, we'll be making continual updates!
Awesome. Our network looks forward to being able to use FeedBurner to track the traffic on our several dozen blogs. Will you provide the ability to see daily totals for our whole network?
Daniel,
To include our site stats in your blog, you will need to add just a tiny snippet of client-site JavaScript to your site templates. No server-side anything (on your end, anyway — FeedBurner does all the heavy lifting). The good news is that if you're already using FeedBurner's FeedFlare service, you won't have to change a thing. Just activate Site Stats and watch the numbers roll in.
Will these stats be unlimited, or will they recycle after 100 hits, as with StatCounter (another great free service)?
Very and very nice from you! Will activate stats account immediately. Can we get it by email regularily?
I cant wait for this to be rolled out to everybody. It looks like a great feature set to be added to an already awesome service.
Thanks TeamFeedBurner! All we can say is YOU GUYS ROCK!
Happy Holidays,
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer & Blogminder
Los Angeles Fire Department
That was the excuse I needed to try FeedFlare ;)
FeedBurner ROCKS!!!
Ah, but what happened to the blogbeat.net site? As a blogbeat customer I can no longer get to the site to see reports. Did it get moved somewhere else and I missed it?
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Joshua, blogbeat's ISP has been having major issues so we've moved their DNS over to our own setup and it should be back up today....we are converting lots of blogbeat customers today so we'll also just make sure you're on the list and you can start using the FB version of stats.]
I hope I'll be one of the customers converted soon -- I can't reach blogbeat.net either.
So as a Blogbeat and Feedburner user, will I keep my historical Blogbeat data when it gets moved over?
we can no longer access blogbeat. please add us to the list. we are original blogbeat subscribers.
thanks,
-rdb
For the last two days we've been getting "server not found" errors for Blogbeat.
I realize there is a delay in having the DNS point to the new location but this seems like an unusually long delay.
Also, we've not received in invite to the FB service.
We love you guys, but this is frustrating.
i'll be waiting for this.
This is a fantastic addition to an already amazing tool. Thanks
For current Blogbeat customers -- there's a form up on Blogbeat.net where you can move yourself over to the new FeedBurner site stats.
Just sign into Blogbeat and click on the "FeedBurner site stats are here!!" link at the top.
Here is a good question for you; Why is it that FeedBurner is using Google Analytics on it's blog and front page when you are just about to launch your own competing service? Should you not be testing it yourself?
I noticed that Site Stats is now available in my account.
First feedback: can you add states to the "Top Cities" display?
At least, where they are ambiguous (like, "Arlington")
