Yay for the plug-ins
First, some of my curiosity would be sated if (1) i had access to mod_rewrite to reconfigure permalinks or (2) if the local version of webalyzer didn’t truncate on the question mark. But, since i can’t change either of those things, i’ve tried some WordPress plugins — and they will do wonderfully.
The problem with testing them on this blog is that this blog isn’t really written for anyone but me. Yet, in the past week or so where i’ve done little with my on-line life I can now get past the one meaningful line in the statslog that notes there have been 1k plus hits to this blog since the beginning of the month.
Search Meter suffers the most from this minimal use because all the searches are mine. The report is sufficient and straight forward.
bSuite’s reports are even better than i’d hoped because they reveal the
I’m not entirely sure what i’m looking at with bSuite’s “Top Stories,” broken into “Most Reads Per Day” (MRPD) and “Most Total Reads” (MTR). My belief is that this should show the difference between a popular piece that gets quickly taken up and spreads like wildfire, represented by the area under a sharp peak in a distribution, and story that is widely referenced and gets steady traffic, represented by the area under a long plateau. Here’s my results, story titles hidden to protect the pathetic:
Most Reads Per Day (MRPD)
A: Tot: 17, Avg: 2, Max: 3
B: Tot: 21, Avg: 2, Max: 5
C: Tot: 23, Avg: 2, Max: 4
Most Total Reads (MTR)
C: Tot: 23, Avg: 2, Max: 4
B: Tot: 21, Avg: 2, Max: 5
A: Tot: 17, Avg: 2, Max: 3
The MTR certainly is sorted in order of “Tot” — which i’ll assume is “total reads in reporting period.” I’d then expect Max to mean “maximum reads during a calendar day in the reporting period” — this would capture the peak. So MRPD should be sorted by Max — in order BCA — but it isn’t.
That’s curious. Still, i think i’m ready to distribute these plug-ins to the other blogs. Maybe i should experiment just a little with the simpletag syntax in preparation of playing with bsuggestive. The preview view is not encouraging…. And i do have “Suggest related entries in post (enables tag support)” selected in the Settings panel.
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March 26th, 2006 at 6:34 am
Glad to see you trying out bsuite. A couple notes that may help you on your way are that bsuite expects tags in angle brackets not the square brackets that simpletags 2.x now uses.
Also, your confusion over how bsuite reports top stories is my fault. I’m hoping to improve it in future version (though not my next release). The only explanation I can offer is that there was a time when the “most reads per day” and “most total reads” columns offered different (and valuable) views of my data, but not any more.
Again, thanks for trying bsuite. Keep exploring.