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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Getting anal over Analytics

One of my biggest recent mistakes was installing Google Analytics traffic monitoring on this site a few weeks ago.

It's given me a ridiculous amount of useless information about my visitors to pore over for hours on end. Virtually limitless permutations of the raw logs are available just by drilling down through it's copious reports.

For example, here's the top 25 search terms used to hit my site in the last week, just from Germany.

transvestite
becky
tranny
boobs
tranny blog
"look like a girl" petticoat
tranny with long toenails
tranny basil
best tranny
sudoku
hamster
tranny for me
becoming a shemale
picture sudoku
My long Weekend DVD
short skirts
young tranny
feminization
t-girl uk
crossdressing blogs
passes for youtube
Mummy Fetish
too short skirts
k750i nazi theme
make tranny

If anyone has created a Nazi theme for their mobile phone, there just might be an untapped market there. ;-)

Stephanie Delacey Oh, Analytics drives me mad, too. The worse thing is that I don't really understand what some of the graphs represent so in the end I'm just making up things to get concerned about. It's rdiculous.

Becky Fun though. :-)

I didn't say I disliked it, just that installing it was a bad move. :-D

Stephanie Delacey One day I will preview a comment and check my typing...

Anyway, got to get back to Analytics and start defining some tunnels...

Becky The tunnel-defining process is only really useful if your site has some "goals".

For most commercial sites, a "goal" is the page that confirms the customer has actually forked out some cash to buy something on the site. Turning a browser into a buyer is called a "conversion".

For sites like blogs, obviously that isn't too relevant. So what I've done is tell Analytics that certain other sections of my website are "goals". That way I can see, for example, how many people who find my site from typing "transvestite" into Google actually find my blog, and how many just go and gawk at the pictures.

Siobhan Curran <-- guilty of the latter :-D

Sarah F. Whereas a "conversion" for this site would have entirely different connotations.

Anonymous Mummy Fetish? I really hope thats not what I think it is

Anonymous Have you guys tried basil. the theme of its interface i must say looks a little like mint, however these guys seem to be dead on track with producing simple reports on you stats data. The app seems new but their features turn around is quite impressive.

i see goods things to come of this and when it hits version 2 i'm looking to invest

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