PaD Views

[williamdrew]

I will start out by saying I am not very knowledgable on all things PaD here on pbase, and I have a question regarding page views. I did a Pad back in October. As we neared the end of the year the page views for that PaD dropped to a few view per week, which was expected. But now, since 12/28, the thing has been averaging 60+ views per day. I haven't done anything to promote it, actually I haven't done anything to it at all. So, beind curious as to what would spur all these hits I put the statcounter on my pages. And for the week that I've had it, statcounter is saying that no one has looked at this PaD, yet every day this week I've had around 60 views on it.

So, my question is (are), what would spur a sudden interest in a 3-month old PaD? Does anyone trust statcounter? Are there other tracking sites that are, well, better?

Thanks in advance,

Bill

[djwixx]

Are you sure your statcounter project is set up correctly? I set mine up with my root gallery, then anything under that will show up.

It can also take a little while for the search engines to show things and that is probably where your hits are coming from depending in titles, comments etc. I get numerous hits as a result of search engine activity!

[williamdrew]

I entered my statcounter information in the 'plugins' section under the 'edit your account settings' section. Is there a better/different way to do it?

Thanks!

[djwixx]

I entered my statcounter information in the 'plugins' section under the 'edit your account settings' section. Is there a better/different way to do it?

Thanks!

That all you need to do on Pbase, but on statcounter you need to set up a new project. Do you have a project set up over there? I use my root gallery for the project on statcounter.

[williamdrew]

The project I have set up on statcounter is my root gallery, or it is the main "http://www.pbase.com/williamdrew" page. Should I set up another project? And if so, do I just put the code for that project in a particular "album"?

Which does bring up another question: My page views on statcounter are running about half of what I see on my pbase "page views" page.

[djwixx]

The project I have set up on statcounter is my root gallery, or it is the main "http://www.pbase.com/williamdrew" page. Should I set up another project? And if so, do I just put the code for that project in a particular "album"?

Which does bring up another question: My page views on statcounter are running about half of what I see on my pbase "page views" page.

Looks like your project is OK. I don't think Pbase counts your own views, and assuming you have a blocking cookie set up on statcounter nor should it. I'll have to plead ignorance at this stage

[williamdrew]

I appreciate the insight you have given me so far! Thank you for your help!

Bill

[adalberto_tiburzi]

My page views on statcounter are running about half of what I see on my pbase "page views" page.

The same for me.

PBase daily visits to my pages:

Sun Jan 20 1208
Sat Jan 19 1357
Fri Jan 18 1601
Thu Jan 17 1495
Wed Jan 16 1183
Tue Jan 15 1514
Mon Jan 14 1632
Sun Jan 13 1704
Sat Jan 12 1670
Fri Jan 11 1768
Thu Jan 10 1608

StatCounter visits, same days:

Sunday 20th 690
Saturday 19th 580
Friday 18th 844
Thursday 17th 705
Wednesday 16th 634
Tuesday 15th 664
Monday 14th 899
Sunday 13th 793
Saturday 12th 724
Friday 11th 795
Thursday 10th 698

[williamdrew]

I have a very similiar count variance to your (although I'm not yet getting anywhere near the hits you're receiving).

My counts are:

pbase:
Mon 656
Tue 646
Wed 780
Thu 1011
Fri 628
Sat 608
Sun 829

statcounter
Mon 276
Tue 232
Wed 682
Thu 514
Fri 474
Sat 398
Sun 572

[adalberto_tiburzi]

It's very similar William.
I know PBase counts also the self-hits (only in the total on the profile page).
But this is not an explanation, even in your case the difference is too large.
And I'm not uploading that much!
Somebody noticed the same, and could explain the reason?
Just curious...

[northstar37]

I have a script blocker running which probably shows up as blocking data gathering from the stat counter unless I allow or temporarily allow it.

Maybe that is part of the reason.