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  boatblogger · Member · Oct 29, 2008 at 8:34 pm

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  Stats are rubbish. Can we please have the usual Google Analytics functionality. Put simply, the information is barely useful.

  What would be useful at least: Where are the readers coming from. When they come, where do they go. When they come in from a referrer where do they go.

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  rosclarke · Member · Oct 29, 2008 at 8:37 pm

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  Can I use Google Analytics?

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Oct 29, 2008 at 8:49 pm

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  What do you need more than a few numbers? I see a graph, it goes up, it goes down, so what? Blogging isn’t about what’s on your dashboard, it’s what in your post.

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  boatblogger · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 11:52 am

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  So that you can write for your audience?

  Knowing where they come from allows you to position your writing in a fashion appropriate for an audience.

  Knowing which pages people link to when they come on site helps understand how people use the content.

  Knowing hits versus views allows you to have a genuine understanding of how popular your blog is.

  Knowing where people go on your site gives you a notion of visitor loyalty.

  Knowing where people are viewing from allows you to issue posts at a time suitable for that audience.

  Knowing visitor loyalty allows you to understand whether your articles are gaining traction and respoect or whether they are being viewed and the dumped

  Knowing how long people stay on your site allow you to understand whether or not your site is interesting to readers or not.

  Google Analytics provides all these capabilities FOC. What we have here is a very cut down version of Analytics.

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  lizii · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 11:56 am

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  You want to taylor your blog to the people that read it?

  Why don’t you just encourage them to comment? I’m sure if you had regular readers, they’d comment to tell you what they thought.

  And would you really change your writing style, and the time suitable for you, to your readers? Unless you’re doing this for a company/business or something, why bother?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 12:30 pm

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  boatblogger – we don’t even know if you are hosted here as you have not provided a link to your blog nor is it linked in your user name as explained in the sticky, 8 Things, in the top of the forum.

  Even if you are hosted here, after only being here a month, how many visitors are you getting to be so worried about the stats? Finally, if you are not happy with the stats, there are other free blogging platforms out there and some of them allow you to use GA.

  I’ve been here almost 3 years and I have no problems with the stats.