I found StatCounter on one of the myeloma blogs that I track, The Beast .... It has some nice features:
- Separate counts of page loads, unique visitors, and returning vistors
- Ignore hits from your own household (if you are on DSL or cable)
- Slick graphs of all of the statistics, per week, per month, etc.
- Invisible tracking (no counter showing) if you prefer
- Statistics available for all to view, or just to you if you prefer
It's free, of course.
I especially like the feature that can ignore my own IP address, so that my own reloads don't advance the counter. My visitors are relatively few, I think, and without that feature I really don't know if there are any unless they comment.
That feature does depend on a "static" IP address, so I assume that I may need to go into my StatCounter account and update my IP address after each time the DSL (or cable) modem has to reboot, e.g. after any power failures.
well this interesting info. i use sitemeter which i have been pretty happy with except that it allegedly has the feature where it doesn't count your own visits-except it doesn't work. i learned something new from the end of your post about IP addresses resetting, but i know that doesn't account for all of the times sitemeter counts me. well, thanks for the tip. i probably won't migrate b/c i'm all set up, but i like knowing what's out there.
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