Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sitemeter vs Blogger Stats Diverge

Tillerman has recently posted that more and more spam comments are getting through the Blogger filter, and I've been seeing exactly the same thing.

Another thing I've been observing is an increasing difference between the statistics from Sitemeter and those generated by Blogger itself.

I'd imagine part of the effect is due to increased use of RSS feeds etc but also I wonder if its because Google, as Blogger's owner, is doing searches "internally" without rendering the page in a way that Sitemeter can detect.

Of course there's more to life that the number of your blog hits.... which is probably just as well!

9 comments:

Tillerman said...

I have noticed that disparity too and have decided that it is one of the universe's mysteries that we should just accept and not seek to explain. Like Murphy's Law and why older women like to dye their hair red.

O Docker said...

Maybe Blogger and Sitemeter are using different random number generators.

O Docker said...

Maybe Blogger and Sitemeter are using different random number generators.

O Docker said...

Maybe Blogger and Sitemeter are using different random number generators.

JP said...

Doh! I've been hit by those spammers again!

Can't work out what they've been advertising. Maybe its something viral I'm not aware of, though I have this feeling that Dockers are some sort of shoe - is that right?

Tillerman said...

Pants.

O Docker said...

I'd post a link to the Dockers site, but then my post would be deleted by Blogger's spam filter.

I think you have to write a paragraph of random words that make no sense first to fool the Blogger spam filter.

On second thought, maybe that's why my comments are seldom deleted by the spam filter.

JP said...

British pants or American pants?

Tillerman said...

Malaysian pants. Dominican Republic pants. Wherever pants are made these days.