Tracking my (sparse) user base.

I spent a good bunch of time last week try­ing to set up some sort of basic track­ing for shiny and the DH’s blog obser­va­tions. There are ninety-three (gues­ti­mate) Word­Press plu­g­ins that track traf­fic (mostly by look­ing at the site’s server logs.) But there is not one decent review of which ones work well and which ones don’t or even an overview (excel spread­sheet any­one?) of what sort of infor­ma­tion they make out of the raw log data.

Yes­ter­day Google Ana­lyt­ics gave me the shock of my life — I had vis­i­tors. 12 in fact. The result of some tech­no­rati searches, the men­tion of an Adam Green­field post and the lovely folk(s) over at //engtech who came by to see who the hell I was.

I also found out that I had com­ments wait­ing to be mod­er­ated. Way wait­ing — like a week. The email noti­fi­ca­tion didn’t work. Sorry — I’ll watch much more care­fully in the future.

Now if I can just fig­ure out what all those boxes and charts over on Google Ana­lyt­ics actu­ally mean…

Happy Week­end y’all.

edited 25.may.07 to change the url for //engtech, who is now ter­ror­iz­ing the web-o-sphere under the name inter­net duct tape. Too cool.