Review of noelharrison[dot]net

I thought that I would write about the statistics on my blog; how they are useful to me in a personal sense as well as in a business sense and what kind of information we collect from you as the user.

There are many great applications in order to collect this information, I personally use a system called AwStats – that is until I finnish developing my own personal system which I will be using on my clients websites (see my business at www.spinningyourweb.net).

In a personal way, it is useful to see what people are interested in reading – you are able to track what people searched for in order to find your blog, you are able to see where in the world the visits are coming from (for instance, this blog gets hits from – South Africa, United States, Argentina, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany to name a few). It also collects information about when my users are on the blog and for how long they are reading my blog. It also tells me where the hits came from – eg. other blogs and search engines. It is a good way to see how well your networking with other sites is working (Networking? Things such as your URL, link or reference to your blog on other online locations).

From a business perspective, these features are very helpful. You are able to aim your websites content towards the audience that is visiting your website. As far as countries go, it helps you to be able to target the appropriate languages to the appropriate groups of people. In business, it is important to know how many different (unique) people view a website a month and for how long they stay on the website. This gives you an understanding of approximately how many people are reading how much.

Anyway, heres what my blog has had in the last year or so; Unique hits: 2641, Page Views: 15421 and Visits: 2614. This is very low in comparison to most large websites, but I have detected a increase in hits over the last few months, so im excited to see what the next year or so holds as far as blogging goes.

Noel Harrison