Comments on: The Transition Continues

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:34:17 +0000

If I was really interested I would write something to do it that didn’t leave tags on visitors.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:20:11 +0000

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.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:59:52 +0000

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.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:14:16 +0000

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.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:12:38 +0000

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! 😆

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:53:21 +0000

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.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:43:27 +0000

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. :)