Analytics 2: the Analyzing

[demiurgent]

Wednesday, who is a professional, pointed Mint out to me, which she got up and running for me.

Oh, holy crap dude. This is awesome. By far the best tracking/referral/popularity thing I've ever touched. Weds is right. Weds rocks. And it's realtime, in a way that actually works.

Of course, now I'm rethinking strategies moving forward -- I'm stunned at how much traffic the archives get. Stunned with stunning. And I can watch as they spread (the Silent Garfield stuff, for example, seems to be propagating again.)

Man, this is just awesome.

Comments

[aeire.livejournal.com]

...okay next time I have $30 to toss at it, I'm getting that thing. It looks like it's got WAY more useful info than what I've been using.

[lunabird.livejournal.com]

That probably has something to do with the fact that Penny Arcade recently linked some of the silent Garfield type stuff.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

The guys over at grinding.be brought up the silent Garfield thing (http://grinding.be/2008/02/25/ot-garfield-without-garfield/), too.

[ubersoft.livejournal.com]

Interesting. It looks like its main caveat is that it requires javascript be enabled on a browser in order to tag the hit as "human." This is probably not a huge problem these days what with so much of the web being web-2-ified, though I think it would exclude some of my more paranoid readers.

I think it might be worth $30 though. It's a flat $30 fee and then you install it on your website, right? Not a subscription cost per month?

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

If we find you wearing a navy blue suit jacket with wide white trim, roaming the beaches and shouting "I want...information!", it will be necessary to take steps.

[gregusa.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's almost worth the $30 to be able to see referrals both by single page and condensed by domain. Everything else I've seen gives you one or the other.

Thanks to Weds for finding it, and thanks to you for passing it on.

[wednesday]

OK, if anyone's rushing out to buy themselves a copy based on this post: you really, really want to grab almost all of Shaun Inman's extra Pepper (linked from the same place you'll download Mint itself). Part of Mint's appeal is that it's crazy extensible with the Pepper.

Yes, yes, plugins, but there are separate things called plugins, so we indulge the conceit.

I haven't played much with the third-party Pepper yet. I figure we get a nice stable sense of holy fuck, dude and then I start throwing extras at it. Inman's set will do for most people.