January 04, 2007

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Fantastic news! FeedBurner's the best $5 any blogger can spend. Looking forward to having my blog stats in one unified interface.

Apologies for going all retro! "Not worthy!"

You should really work on a better integration guide. Drop down menues and pop-up windows are confusing and hard to navigate with...

The "dashboard" and the actuall stat interface is OK though. :)

Wont this require me to put FeedFlare or some other FeedBurner feature on every page to get true stats? I have pages which do not have this information - what about those? Do you also have a javascript call I can put on those pages, so that all pages get counted?

Thanks

Hi Dustin, for any third party stats service you have to put javascript throughout your site. The site tracking service allows you to select your blog platform and then provides step by step instructions on how to get that script into your pages. In almost all cases, this is just a matter of putting some script code into a couple of site template pages. You don't have to run flare to run site stats - it's simply the case that they are all integrated into the same script, so by inserting the script for one, you can easily activate the other automatically in your FeedBurner account.

I just spent my lunch hour clicking around in my site stats and I LOVE IT. Feedburnr rocks.

Wow! Nice.

Years ago I saw a project at RTmark that was looking for someone to get legally married to a corporation (since corporations are regarded as people under the law). If I weren't already engaged to the most wonderful woman in the world, I'd propose to FeedBurner!

You guys continue to totally rock! And you're timing is perfect… I was just looking for a new stats solution to go into the new year with!

I've found that feedflare causes trouble for many feed readers. As the "flares" update the number of comments or diggs, etc it will cause the reader to think the post has been updated and list it again as unread.

Has anyone else experienced this or know a fix? It can be quite annoying. (just my 2c on using feedflare instead of code for tracking statistics)

Christer -

Two separate issues: first, in feeds, FeedFlare is rendered as a dynamically updated image (but one whose physical address never changes). This means that while the "contents" of the image will change as the number of Diggs, tags, etc. changes, the image itself will not - and aggregators will not see the item as new.

On sites, FeedFlare is rendered as one line of javascript - which doesn't have any impact on feed readers at all.

Hope that helps,

Rick
VP, Publisher Services
FeedBurner

How about providing RSS feeds to the statistics? I could then subscribe to them in BlogLines. Performancing Metrics does this.

I just posted a video review of the stats...
http://www.centernetworks.com/video-feedburner-stats-review

I love FeedBurner (big B for Traci!)

This looks great, but what if I want to have feed flare on my feed but not on my site. As far as I can tell, adding this script will force me to have feed flare on site also.

I'd like to have a script that I can put in my footer template so I'll have stats on every page (and just one call to the script, instead of many on index.php in WordPress), and not show FeedFlare on site. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Ah... I remember/see now that there are separate checkbox columns for feed and site. Very nice.

So the question is if it's ok just to drop the script in to the footer of the page. I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't work.

Dick, back to what Dustin said, don't you have to add the script to any page that doesn't carry FeedFlare? IE, I use FeedFlare and this will show for my individual posts. But my home page won't have FeedFlare info on it -- so no tracking of my most important page. No problem -- I can add the code manually to that. But you probably want to tell people to at least do something special for their home pages or any other high traffic non-post pages they might have.

Hey there Danny. Yes, I guess I wasn't clear in my response to Dustin. I generally think of a site as either having FeedFlare everywhere or not having it, but that's a bad assumption. I see your point, and you're correct about what needs to be done. You need to add the javascript code to any non-post pages you have (hopefully through some blog template, but otherwise via any means necessary) in order for visits to those pages to be counted. We'll be sure to add that to any of the pop-up help pages for the various blog platforms. Thanks for request for clarification.

Is there a way to exclude IP addresses from being tracked? (For example if you don't want visits from your home/work to be tracked.)

I prefer another per-post social bookmarking solution. How do I use StandardStats without FeedFlare?

Mike, no problem. although feedflare and stats use the same javascript, you activate those services independently within feedburner. so if you want stats but no flare, add the script code to your site and just activate stats within FB but don't ever activate the Flare service and you'll be all set. I hope that makes sense. If it's still not clear, let us know and we'll provide more detailed help within the stats setup.

When you publish your stats via the API/feed, don't you give them away to everybody else as well? I wanted to integrate the stats via the wordpress plugin, (http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-reports/) and it worked fine, but I am not sure if then the stat data is available to everybody via the feed, which I do NOT want. Any comments?

Daniel -

I'll check out how the WordPress Reports plugin accesses feed data - I've not used that plugin before. A couple quick comments:

* Your data is never made public unless you enable the Awareness API (under Publicize)
* You can test to see if your data is visible publicly by going to this URL and typing in your feed URI at the end: http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=BurnThisRSS2 (where you'd substitute your feed URI for BurnThisRSS2, our blog feed URI)
* Full information about securing access to API data is on this page: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/developers .

Hope that helps; I'll take a look at the plugin to see what else I can learn.

--Rick

Scott - First off, sorry for the out-of-order answering of your questions. We had an issue with MT queueing up comments that we've now fixed; you get your questions answered all at once. :)

Re: excluding IP addresses, that's not something we currently do, but it's on the short-term enhancement list that should be out soon.

Re: inserting the Flare script into a page footer as opposed to below every post. Yes, technically, you can do this. That will enable us to track *page* accesses, but not necessarily individual item views when multiple posts are on a page. We'll be spelling out our thinking on this in more detail shortly, but suffice it to say that attaching the script to the post as opposed to the page is an important part of our long-term strategy: as content gets more decentralized, it becomes increasingly important to measure content consumption as discretely as possible. Measuring the page alone is no longer enough, in our opinion.

Hope that helps!

--Rick

Would there be a way to enable FeedFlare for posts, but not include FeedFlare when tracking my other pages - About Me, Contact, etc?

Dan -

Absolutely. Simply insert the javascript on the page templates you want to track, and keep it off of the page templates you aren't interested in tracking. That'll do what you want.

--Rick

I've been using these stats on my blog since they were introduced and they're great. I love it.

One thing that is really annoying: I want to be able to click on the URL of the referrer sites (incoming) to see exactly what the referring page is saying about my blog. There is no way of doing this? I can't even copy/paste the URL to visit it. This should be changed, IMO.

Judi -

Thanks for the great feedback!

While you can do what you want to do, I agree that it needs to be a little clearer! When you see a referrer, click on it to pull up the detailed page about that referrer. At the top of that page, you'll see a line that says "Incoming site traffic from" and then linked text that points to the URL. You can click on that to go directly to the page.

We're always looking at ways to make this info more usable, and making the referrers more easily accessible is high on that list.

Regards,

Rick

Definitely a much needed help... I'm a stat junkie, and the more stats the better...

This certainly beats the sitemeter that most blogs go with...

This doesn't seem to track Adsense hits the way the Performancing did, will that be a feature that is soon offered?

Thanks!

Excellent additions. Might I suggest that when IP blocking is implemented, it works retroactively? So that the stats aren't made inconsistent by the IP being included in older stats.

Many thanks for the addition, for me some time I find the feed address does not work, what could be wrong with that?

I have been using feedburner for over a year now and this darn site just keep getting better and better, please continue to provide this fantastic service because you are the leader of the pack

Mark Felix

Excellent addition... Thanks

Feedburner is excellent and is really the hub for all of the most powerful tools for statistics, blogging, linking up with other services etc.

I just recently discovered FeedBurner and I am hooked! This is an awesome service, and I love the feedburner logo too :) I am switching my blog feeds to your service.

The SiteStats you mentioned are great! Very user friendly to browse through, nicely organized, flowing organically.

tq feedburner...with feedburner i can improve my visitor count...

I love FeedBurner from the start and sticking with it forever... :)
I wish the WordPress plugins includes the statistics tracking code and the feed flare in it so that users don't have to edit any PHP files...

Hi, I feedburned from http://lil78.blogspot.com to http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/thelifecycleoflil/, but the author pic is blank, how can i get the author pic displayed on the Latest Content?

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