The Transition Continues
I was looking for a new stats supplier because Sitemeter apparently doesn’t have provisions for SSL secured sites, and ran across IPnoid, which doesn’t either, but whose front page reminded me of all the metadata that gets sucked up by the various page counters. I have decided that I don’t really care, and will just remove Sitemeter and Feedjit when it is time to reduce the cookie overload that people are under.
I was checking on I Can Has Cheezburger? to see what I could do about my favorite LOLs, and discovered that they have already made the matter moot by changing their file system. None of my existing links to their content work anymore. That certainly wasn’t a very friendly thing to do to those of us that followed their rules, and used their code for linking.
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Yeah, I’m looking at Stat’s s/w for my blog. I’ve been using AWstats for years, it supports SSL (and IPv6 via plugin). There were some WP plugins, but I’ve had to put that on hold for now.
They have a page with a list of Plugins, contribs and related programs. 🙂
You can always check WP for a plugin also. One that looked interesting that I was planning to investigate further, was ‘HeadSpace2 SEO’.
Good luck. 🙂
I’m going to drop the whole thing, Kryten, because it is another way you get tracked on the ‘Net. If I was in commerce, I would do it, but nobody needs another cookie that Google will read and track.
AWstats (and Webalizer) don’t use cookies Bryan. They just read your server logs. The good thing about AWstats over Webalizer (and others of that ilk) is that they try to filter out robots and not count them as ‘people’ hits. That way you know how many people are actually visiting & what they are interested in (without any user details), and what robots are trawling your site and chewing up your bandwidth. 😉
Regarding cookies, there are plugins for most browsers now that will anonomize the info they contain. Really pisses off Google I can tell you! 😆
Bryan isn’t using a VPS, Kryten, so he can’t get to the server logs himself, they’re maintained by the ISP as a shared hosting resource.
Thinking about it, the way my ISP bills, for resource usage, I get a general feel for traffic any way, because it increases my costs, specifically the bandwidth charge.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that Feedjit is using an ad server which is reading cookies, so they are definitely toast. I don’t like commercial snooping any better that government snooping. They have probably been doing it for a while, but the other day the site hung up while loading waiting for a response from the ad server. Screw that.
because it is another way you get tracked on the ‘Net.
i resisted sitemeter on my blogs at first because of that, and then it was kind of fun, especially when some competitors to sitemeter started popping up, and then i dropped them and the other counters i was playing with because of that.
If I was really interested I would write something to do it that didn’t leave tags on visitors.