Analytics is fun
In order to figure out how many people are reading my blog, I hooked it up to Google Analytics. It’s a pretty nifty tool and gives you all sorts of data that doesn’t seem important. :-P
I suppose if I was worried about driving traffic to my blog and doing SEO (search engine optimization) stuff, it would matter; but I just like writing stuff and getting to read it later. I guess it’s kind of like keeping a diary. That people are reading is icing on the cake.
Anyway, back to Analytics. One dataset I found interesting is what web searches people did to stumble on my blog. There were a lot of obvious ones like “vijay bangaru” and “defenestrating”, but the one I liked the most is “bivouac engineering & service co. llc”
That just makes me really happy. :-)
(Defenestrate and bivouac were my roommates’ and my favorite words back in college.)
alicea w. wrote:
what if i read your blog because i have your blog as part of a feed among other blogs? i don’t visit your site often, but i still get your writings, does it tell you about that?
Posted on 20-Nov-08 at 3:19 pm | Permalink
Vijay wrote:
I think for feeds I need to hook up something like Feedburner.
Except for people who use Google Reader. Reader tells you how many people are also subscribed to a feed.
Posted on 20-Nov-08 at 9:12 pm | Permalink