3 Days’ Statistics
September 16th, 2007 at 7:00 am by azwan. Filed under Adsense, Traffic.
Once in a while it’s good to check and do a short review on your own statistics. If you are blogging for fun, then you may not want to do this. If you are blogging for money, especially with Adsense, then traffic itself is an important source of your income. However, Adsense is still not an important part of the blog’s income 
To make Adsense an important factor, I have to move to a specific niche and start playing with keywords but .. this blog, being a personal one, it’s a little bit difficult to do that.
Difficult, but not impossible
Anyway, regarding my statistics. This time I am looking at from where my visitors are coming from. From the stats above, 65% is from Malaysia. It makes sense since lately my post are more related to my country. The 2nd most significant is from USA while the rest are scattered all over the world. I am only displaying the Top 10.
My target for the first year is to have at least 40% from outside Malaysia. From the past 3 days it looks like I am able to achieve that but that’s only for 3 days. It might be different if you look at the whole month or the past 6 months. I don’t know about you but I feel, it’s important that you take a look at your statistics to have a feel of what is going on. Analyzing your site statistics will help you to answer :
- Where (country) is the traffic coming from?
- Which search engines that give you the most traffic?
- What are the keywords that bring people here?
- Which sites, from you link exchange, that drive in the most traffic? Top referrer.
- Which day gets the most traffic, what about other days and what are you going to do about it?
- Which is your top pages?
- Is your traffic growing?
- Which browser is your visitors using? This will help you to work on which browser should you optimized you blog for. As for me, it works in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Only your stats will be able to answer that and if you analyze them correctly and work to achieve what you want, it will do wonders. Currently I am only using Google Analytics and StatCounter.
What do you use and what do you use them for?
Tags: statistics, analytics
Google Analytics and Sitemeter.
azwan reply on September 16th, 2007 1:41 pm:
Google Analytics is a good tool but are we making full use of it?
am just pasang plugins slimstats saja… dari situ kita boleh tengok dari search engine mana yang carian datang, keyword term yang sangkut, dan kita lawat balik link tersebut… kita tau la untuk satu-satu key term tu, di yahoo rank kita dimana, di google juga dimana…
kemudian jika ada domain baru yang sebelum ni tak pernah refer ke blog kita… juga boleh detact.. dan yang lain2 nanti nak jugak explore… cam baru jer pasang site meter… untuk track jumlah visitor dan lihat report diorang…
azwan reply on September 16th, 2007 2:06 pm:
I think most of the statistics tools out there can do a lot of things already. It’s just a matter of preference don’t you think? I have tried a few, even slimstats, but still go back to those 2. Started with sitemeter but now don’t use it anymore.
i am using google analytic and crazyegg..with crazyegg I will know which is the ‘hot place’ that my visitors always click
Google Analytics has similar option to see the ‘hot place’ you mentioned.. Just login and go to Content and then Site Overlay. Compare it and see which one is better. And why not blog about it
Just using google analytics..
Hm.. just wonder..
how you get the image statistics ??
azwan reply on September 16th, 2007 4:39 pm:
That’s from StatCounter not analytics
zool reply on September 17th, 2007 5:06 pm:
tq for your info..
oooo statscounter?
kalo awstats? saya punya stats pulak dari amerika number one. australia no 2, malaysia no 3. indonesia no 4.
stats untuk bulan lepas ke?
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 12:27 pm:
Aku ada masalah dengan awstat, tu sebab tak guna dah.
kalo kiraan statcounter pulak dari malaysia no satu, indonesia 2, united stats no 3.
nomornya stats saya pulak tersikit dari azwan. miahahahaaa….
top 25 country dalam awstats camana pulak heh?
agaknya awsats tu kiraan terkumpul rasanya. itu pasal banyak sikit…
As for now I a still blogging for fun. For money??? Not yet lah. Traffic is very low and not much interesting subject. Not much time to blog coz of ’sibukness’. All the best to u guys anyway.
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 12:30 pm:
It’s still fun for me too
I have never reach 20 post per month as recommended by my Jedi Master
hOhOhO… salam bro… tujuan puasa nie jgk nak kecot kan pewot lar nie… thehehehe… harap harap nyer lar..
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 12:31 pm:
jangan tinggal harapan je
My own IP indicates that I’m from Kota Bharu, Kelantan. How come eh?
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 12:41 pm:
ha..ha.. funny, mine is always almost correct, ie when i’m in Prai it shows Pulau Pinang and when in Sungai Buloh it shows Kuala Lumpur.
20 post per month? heheh… mimpi ajalah jawabnya
mulih2… tp sumer less than 50 words.
aku memula dulu kejap-kejap tgk analytics, cam budak poyo hahahah…
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 5:46 pm:
I’m still trying, although a bit tough. If 50, then i can do 100 post per month bro. Once a week still ok but to do it daily, kelakar jugak
nice score! your blog have potential go farther..
azwan reply on September 17th, 2007 5:47 pm:
As a part time blogger, i hope so. Thanks Bent.
yup, i agree with Bent.
This blog have a big potential to go further.
I’ve learn a lot form this blog and also kak Azleen’s blog.
- Shueqry -
azwan reply on September 18th, 2007 12:25 pm:
the potential is there but at the moment .. have not found anything to sell yet so that i can make more money
Thanks Shueqry.