Website Analytics: Obsession and Addiction - Are you into it too?

Website analytics is all about determining information about visitors, country they come from, number of page views, number of out clicks, keywords and etceteras. I was particularly interested in finding a correlation between the posts and number of page views they receive. Back in Nov’06 when I started blogging here on this site, I used to see my site analytics once a day because that’s the AWStats panel in CPanel of this site would be updated only once a day. This caused enormous frustrations and I then purchased a web analytics software called Mint.

Mint came along with many nice features, the most important to me was that it updates and shows visitor information as they hit the site. All in real time! This was the cause of my serious addiction with site analytics.

I did not even realize that I am watching over my Mint reports once every 30 minutes and spending lots of time doing just that. I could have as well used that time for writing a post, isn’t it? That’s why I am writing this post now.

You have a serious addiction, harmless in nature but time waster if you are doing any of these:-

• Checking your site statistics once every 15 to 30 minutes.
• The first page you open when your day begins is your site’s analytics report page.
• The first thing you tell about your site to your friends is the the number of hits it receives.

You are otherwise normal if you don’t do any of the points mentioned above. But if you think that you are into this addiction, here are some tips that you should follow whenever you want to check your site’s analytics.

• Visit 5 different blogs and read what they are talking about.
• Post comments on others blog posts that are of your interest.
• Check your very old posts and check if you can link some keywords from your old posts to the newly posted articles.
• Download some nice manifestos and read them. Visit ChangeThis
• Check for broken links in your blog.

You got better ideas? What’re you waiting for - post then in the comments section below.