Easy C Tutorials is celebrating its second month of life. While this definitely isn’t that big of a deal since some blogs have been around for years but I’m still proud of my creation. I’m surprised that I’ve actually kept around long enough and continued to post even though school is going on.

This month’s statistic and blogging tips are about statistical counters and which ones I use. Here’s a list of things I use on my site to keep track of my visitors:

  • Feedburner:
    Most of you know what Feedburner is and what it’s used for. For those who don’t, Feedburner is a feed “enhancer”. It takes your default feeds, and ads more functionality to it without you having to modify it yourself. Feedburner also allows you to keep track of everyone who has subscribed to your feed. This gives you a general impression on whether or not people like reading your stuff. I use Feedburner to keep track of my feed subscribers as well as make my feeds nice :P
  • Sitemeter:
    Sitemeter is simply a tool that keeps track of your visitors. All you have to do is signup, add a few lines of javascript to your blog (they supply the code) and then watch your statistics flow in. The great thing about Sitemeter is that it’s real time statistics. You can see the statistics as the people visit your site. There are a few problems with Sitemeter though. The first problem is that it only holds data for the last 100 people unless you sign up for their premium service (which is $6.95/month or more). The second problem I have with Sitemeter is that unless you sign up for their premium service you have to place a little graphic on your page. While this graphic isn’t too obtrusive it doesn’t look great. Oh well I guess thats the price you pay for real time statistics
  • Google Analytics:
    Google Analytics is basically the same as Sitemeter except it doesn’t give real time statistics and fixes all of Sitemeter’s problems. Google Analytics gives you detailed information on every visitor that comes to your page. It gives you search details, referral details and more. The only problem I’ve ever had with Google Analytics is that it only updates once per day (hence why I use Sitemeter). Other than that it’s really good. You can look at almost every aspect of your blog as well as an overlay of your blog and the number of clicks there (this is extremely helpful for advertising). I prefer Google Analytics over Sitemeter any day of the week.

I use these three statistical counters to view the performance of my blog and I know a lot of other bloggers use them as well. If you have any that you use feel free to comment about them.

Now on to Septembers Statistics

My goals for September were as follows:

  1. Get over 3300 visitors and 5000 page views.
  2. Increase the average visitors time on the site to 2 minutes or more.

So how did I do?
Visitors: 2862
Page Views: 4602
PV per Visit: 1.61
PV per Day: 153
Visitor per Day: 95
Time on the Site: 1:54

So I didn’t actually make any of the goals that I had set out to make but I’m still extremely pleased with my stats, wanna know why? With the start of September came another year of University for me. With the start of University came a decrease in the number of posts. I haven’t posted a new tutorial since September 6th. While I’ve still kept posting in my blog the number of posts have decreased.

I’m pleased with my stats because they show that I can still get visitors even without posting every day (or week in the case of tutorials). I’m not going to make any goals for the month of October because I’m going to try to post a lot more so I really have no idea whats going to happen.

What can you expect from October
Well you can expect a lot of things. First theres going to be a few tutorials this month, one of them will be on pointers and I haven’t thought of the other one yet. As for this blog you can expect a week long series on “Technology in our lives” coming soon. You can also expect a few posts on Halloween gadgets and safety. I’m doing this do try to capture seasonal search traffic. Well those are a few things to expect in the month to come. I hope you stay around and continue reading.