So that's what a Tamalanch looks like

Yesterday, I discovered what blog traffic looks like.

Today, I discovered what a Tamalanch looks like.

Are my blog stats flipping me the bird????

Um, wow.

So that's what traffic looks like.

So this is what happens when you get linked to by both Borepatch and Jay G.

And yes, unfortunately, that is a HUGE day in visits for me.

Maybe I should write more, or better, or something.

Follow-up on tracking RSS feed stats

On Thursday, I asked a question about tracking RSS views and stats via Sitemeter.

As I expected, nobody really knew anything. However, having done some research, I have stumbled upon the answer. I had previously noticed that a lot of people used Feedburner to provide their RSS feeds. I wondered about that, because most blogging platforms provided native RSS support.

Well, it turns out that Feedburner is for RSS feeds what Sitemeter or Google Analytics is for web sites. So, I've changed my feed settings in blogger to point to feed burner, and I've changed the RSS chicklet on my site as well.

I can now see how many subscribers there are to my feed, and which entries they actually click through on. So, if you already knew that, I'm sure you're chuckling and smirking behind your hand, but if you didn't, hopefully this is useful for you.

Sitemeter bleg

Okay, so I finally signed up for a Sitemeter account, because I wanted the better stats that they offer.

Here's my question: Do you include it in your RSS feed, and if so, how? Or, do you just accept that you'll only track people that actually click through to your site?

Well, that's somewhat interesting

I knew I had a following (if two peopled can be considered a following) more on the geeky side, but the last I'd checked Internet Explorer (all versions) was still the predominant browser seen on my site.

According to Blogger Stats, that has now changed.  These are the hits for last week (actually numbers hidden to protect my self-esteem):

Pageviews by Browsers

Firefox  (41%) Internet Explorer (38%) Chrome (7%) Safari (7%) PhantomJS (2%) SearchToolbar (2%)

And here are my all-time hits:

Pageviews by Browsers Firefox (43%) Internet Explorer (34%) Chrome (10%) Safari (10%) Opera (1%) Mobile (<1%) SearchToolbar (<1%) chromeframe (<1%) Qt (<1%) SeaMonkey (<1%)