One of the things I like best about WordPress is that it gives me stats without my really needing to do anything. I could do it myself (and have done in the past), but I’m not that fussed about it, so am happy to take the easy option!
I like knowing how many people come to my blog and, above all, where they come from. For example, yesterday someone came here from Twitter. I would love to know who and why, but I probably never will. I even logged into my Twitter account (which I don’t use, I signed up out of curiosity and it’s not really my thing) to see if I could find anything. No hints. Also, I get a lot of people searching for songs and/or poems where I have used them for subject headings. I suspect these people are a little disappointed by my lack of information! I also get many people searching for Cthulu dice, with which I cannot help, and for reviews on the books I’ve talked about. Many of my readers come from Ravelry, even though I’m not particularly active over there, which comes as a constant surprise. I love that the stats let me know all this!
An especially favoured feature is the one that tells me what my average daily visitor count has been year by year. I like this because from it I know that my daily visitor count is, slowly, rising. This is not a particularly popular blog, and that’s fine by me (not that I’m against popularity, it’s just that isn’t why I do this!), but it’s nice to know that over the three years the blog has existed, more people have been finding something interesting to look at.
1 Comment
July 9, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I always come from Ravelry, because you show up in my friends’ blog list!