Google Analytics, Alexa, etc.

Thanks for the information!

 

Ok, stupid question time: what is the benefit to running the Alexa toolbar anyway?

 

The same benefit you have by running any other toolbar - none.

 

Except for Google, that's the best toolbar you can have!

 

I personally find the Google Toolbar to be annoying to an extreme extent - it's bloated with features, some of which serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

 

Not the default one in Firefox.

And, the one in Internet Explorer isn't found to be all that annoying, either. Only if you decide to add a whole lot of annoying buttons, I can only foresee it being a problem.

 

Since when does Firefox "default" come with a Google toolbar?

I find any toolbar to be annoying, so I only have the Google toolbar installed in Internet Explorer - which I never use. But when I want to check a site's PR or something, I just fire up IE and use the toolbar.

 

The tool bar that comes with Firefox that's in the top, right hand corner.

And, you may have misread my post - I said the default bar that comes with Firefox when it is installed.

 

That's not a toolbar, it's a search box.

 

I think I may have the two mixed up, yes, I think I do. :\

The last two days I have presented myself as dumb and, I don't like it. :rofl:

 

For traffic and statistics, it really is hard to find an accurate report.
I used to use analytics exclusively until I started the latest site, and realized that analytics is missing better than 1/2 my traffic.

Now, I rely on goingup (iffy for reliability atm) and gostats, both of which at least provide updates more than once a day, and at least strive to be a bit more accurate .

For example:
analytics says my hits yesterday were around 200. Not even vBulletin says they're that low. gostats says they're around 600, and goingup agrees, though it is off by a bit.

Which is right? Based off of awstats and internal stat programs, google is way, way off.Why? I don't know, maybe people blog google for some reason? I really don't know

 

I Was In My cPanel The Other Day, I Got Like 2,000 Something Views....
I Saw So Many Different THings.....Try Using Your cPanel To Look At
Your Stats.

 

We had 31 million hits in August. What's a few million among friends?

Seriously though, I cannot figure out how to get Google analytics to work yet.

 

Setup a google account, inside of that account setup your Google analytics account. At that time you will get a javascript to put in the header or in the footer of your site.

Wait for the reports to be generated at your Google analytics account.