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Random Surge
January 17, 2010, 11:08 am
Filed under: Blogging

According to my Dashboard, there was an unusual surge of traffic to my blog yesterday for no apparent reason. Usually there’s a particular incoming link or a popular google search word, but this time there is no clue. And it’s not just the WordPress Dashboard. The Sitemeter counter also showed a surge. I wonder what it could’ve been. Perhaps an especially aggressive hacking program trying to leave comments?

Speaking of blog traffic, does anyone else notice that the counter for the WordPress Dashboard and Sitemeter differs by a lot? I wonder why that is so.

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I use Google Analytics – it works pretty well.

Comment by Audrey January 17, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

I think the two differ by a lot because sitemeter counts your visits and wordpress doesn’t count your visits.

Comment by Katherine January 18, 2010 @ 12:22 am

I think one must count multiple visits and the other only counts one visit per IPS?

Comment by Little Miss MAC Girl January 18, 2010 @ 6:32 am

oddly enough, sitemeter actually quotes less than wordpress.

i just spent a hour trying to figure out how to add google analytics onto the WordPress dashboard to no avail. Something complicated about plugins and uploading files.

Comment by Barneys Girl January 18, 2010 @ 1:07 pm


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