Comments on: Tracking Tracking Tracking How much is too much

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:19:15 +0000

Charles, (Lake Erie. . .)

I’ve stayed away from adsense on my business blogs. It might be ok to monitize your RE blog. I know if I visit a monitzed RE blog, I’m gone pretty quick. Just personal preference and it signals to me an attitude I don’t want to work with. Again, just personal preference.

I could monitize the Lab, it isn’t looking for future clients and it certainly doesn’t provide any valuable service, throwing some money making ads on it just might help pay the bills.

Wait, do I have any bills for this site? I better go check on that.

By: Lake Erie Real Estate

Lake Erie Real Estate — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:10:47 +0000

I only use Google Analytics and the stats that google adsense give you. I think Google Analytics covers everything that is important to me. I hear web trends is all good.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:18:32 +0000

I really like Google Analytics – great free stats programme.

By: James Wheelock

James Wheelock — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:18:50 +0000

@John – Hi, are you from Camas, Washington. I use to work and live in that market. Just curious how things are going back there. And wondering if there are any recent changes around my old neighborhood Parker Estates.

By: nandana

nandana — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:53:13 +0000

I’ve just gotten into blogging and is using a fairly new blog system called Habari. I’m still confused about the tracking, the pinging and the avatar widgets. The only thing I understand is adsense.

By: John, Camas Homes

John, Camas Homes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:30:01 +0000

I agree that too many tracking stats gum up the workings of your site, and can discourage visitors from returning due to slow load-time. I use Google Analytics and am not up to speed on all its bells and whistles but like what I do use. Minimizing the use of widgets also helps with loading a site. Thanks!

By: Chelle

Chelle — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:42:23 +0000

I use gostats to track my traffic…it’s free, it’s detailed…can’t complain and haven’t really needed to use any other.

By: Malok

Malok — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:45:15 +0000

I only use 1 means of tracking (Google Analytics). A lot of those others that you mentioned, I’ve never even heard of. It provides enough information that a novice like me can at least have a semi-clue as to whats going on. But you are correct, a slow loading site will turn a lot of people off. They don’t like waiting.

By: James Wheelock

James Wheelock — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:16:33 +0000

I agree with this post as from what I have seen when it comes to blog loading times they have all been rising rapidly as time has marched on. This is my first blog and I have decided to only use feedburner and google analytics, which by the way slow a site load plenty on their own.

By: Ki Gray

Ki Gray — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:26:55 +0000

For tracking I mostly just download my log file and then upload it into different analyzer programs. It takes a little longer but it cuts down on code bloat and load time.