SLogbase visitor stats: me want!
October 21, 2007 8:11 am*enters the AAA - Analytics Addicts Anonymous - meeting and takes a seat*
*clears throat*
I am an analytics addict!
Woot! I feel way better now. But really, I do like to know where people that read vintfalken.com come from (google, (direct), flickr), what they think they will find (vint falken, sexgen, stripper contest), where they live (United States, Belgium, United Kingdom), how many of them return, what they end up reading, … .
I know those numbers are mainly used to adjust content, to change to attract even more visitors, … but… well… I’m just curious who does like what I write. I can’t claim it does not influence vintfalken.com at all - I could only claim that if I did not know the Analytics data - but consciously, it does not.
So it would be neat to have the same thing - only adjusted to SL data - in my skybox. Who visits there when I’m not around? Do any of them use the photosphere and N30 set up there for visitors? Do they hang around and invite friends over, or just idle? How old are they? Do they come back? So yeah, I’d love to run the SLOGBASE traffic meter. Sadly enough, the land I rent on a RL server is stuck on PHP 4.4.4. :(
And no, I feel not endangered when all those real world business in Second Life know exactly when I visit their sim and for how long, as they will see what I like and what I dislike, what makes me go there and what makes me return or never come back again. And as they want me to return, they ‘ll hopefully adjust their sims. =)
My only complaint about the SLOGBASE metrics program? That I can’t run it. :(
*ends confession for the Analytics Addicts Anonymous*
Tags: behaviour, slogbase, visitor stats
One Response to “SLogbase visitor stats: me want!”
I’m using the TrafficMeter from Dirty at my shop in Caso Milo. It works pretty well and it’s totally free. It produces counts of visitors by age. I’ve used the data to make a graph of the ages of my visitors that you can see on my blog for some analysis and a SLURL to pick it up (http://www.secondeffects.com/2007/10/my-customers-are-getting-old.html) With the TrafficMeter, you don’t need to install any software of your own since it uses a free server elsewhere.
For lists of visitor names, I also use a modified freebie script. It tracks names of visitors (as long as they stay long enough to be caught in the periodic sensor sweeps.) A modification I put in calculates the average daily visitor rate as well. Give me a shout if you want a copy!
ArminasX Saiman
Electric Pixels
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caso%20Milo/192/114/134/
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