A few months ago, I decided to add a
StatCounter as so to keep a better running count of visitors than the Feedjit Counter. Google Analytics seems to do a decent job, but I wanted to check those figures against another site counter. StatCounter sends a monthly total, too, where as I have to go to Google to view the numbers. I'm lazy, what can I say?
I also am not obsessed with the numbers, but just find them interesting. I *might* be obsessed if this blog got thousands of hits each day, but....
As I have mentioned before, I was a little disappointed that page loads does not equal visitors. (I thought this blog was more popular than it actually is. Wishful thinking, I guess.) The new StatCounter keeps up with those, but it also counts first time visits as well as returning visits. I have it set to ignore my own visits to the blog, but have to reset it when I clear cache and cookies. (the counter is "hidden" in the right-hand nav bar in the box at the very bottom. It's not actually hidden, but I have it set to a tiny size as so to not be so obvious to the casual visitor.)
Here's a screen shot of last month's stats:
