February 15, 2007
Quick Enhancements to Site Statistics
A couple quick hits coming this week for the thousands of you (yes, already thousands) using our free StandardStats service to measure traffic to your blog and/or web site.
- You may now ignore yourself. Not in a selfless, there's-no-"I"-in-"feed" kind of way. No, in the far more vital, omit-your-visits-from-your-stats way. Starting today, you may now exclude your visits to your own site from our StandardStats reporting; just check the "Exclude my own visits" checkbox when setting up site statistics in your FeedBurner account. Visits to your site with browser you are using when you check that box won't count toward any StandardStats site traffic.
- Witness (outgoing link) history as it happens. Starting in the next day or so, you will see site traffic from outgoing links accumulate over time.
- Enjoy cleaner pagination on traffic screens. Don't everybody shout "Woohoo! Better paging!" all at once. The recent traffic screens were getting hard to read for folks with lots of traffic; this update should make things much nicer.
We have a bunch of fun tools for content metrics coming in the next few months, and we're very excited about how all this is coming together. We'll keep rolling things out as they become available.
More to come.
Comments
Ignoring own visits is a really good feature! Thanks! - how about adding this to feed statistics as well? I realise the site stat ignoring is happening via a cookie in the browser. But it should be possible to syndicate the IP address, via the cookie and site stats to figure out which subscriptions are coming from my own computer.
Daniel -
Many feed readers don't support cookies, and many users use web-based aggregators (which means the end user's computer isn't hitting the feed directly). As a result, there's no reliable, consistent way to block individual feed subscriptions from the feed subscriber data as a whole. You could always subscribe to a copy of your feed, or, if you want to get really crazy, create a second FeedBurner feed based on your existing feed that only you know about, and subscribe to it.
Or you could just subtract one from your subscriber number. :)
--Rick
Are site stats available for all time like they are for feed stats? I've only see summary stats for 30 days.
Re: site stats for all time: at this time, we don't show an all-time view, but are looking at ways to incorporate that into the interface. Stay tuned - as Dick says, there's a lot of work going into improving the application, and that's on the list to address.
I <3 FeedBurner.
That's a great update that I was just wondering about the other day.
Ermm, al my feeds reportedly have 0 subscribers as of today (Monday 19th of Feb).
What's going on?
Hi Robin,
We were a little late in the stat roll-ups last night which is why you were seeing zeros this morning. Everything was taken care of by 10:30 am central time so you should be good to go. If you need anything else just let me know.
Cheers,
Eric Olson
erico@feedburner.com
I just got around to enabling feed flare and site statistics. This stuff is amazing. It's so cool to see where all your web traffic is coming from.
Thank you for making this so streamlined and easy!
http://councilofnicea.blogspot.com
These all sound great but "all time" was my favourite graph! I don't use everything feedburner offers, admittedly. But watching exponential increase was me raison d'etre here!
I've started a number of feedburner feeds recently trying to drive people into email subscriptions, and I'm wondering about pagination for the screen where you can view/download the email addresses. Our largest list is over a thousand now and will certainly rise over 10,000, possibly approaching 100,000 over time.
But right now all the emails are showing up on a single page. I imagine that page will become near impossible to load at some point. Will pagination kick in at some point? If not, might that be a good idea to develop for people with larger lists?
thanks,
james
