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I seem to be addicted to real time analytics, i know it's just wasting my time but I can't help it!
Especially over this Cheltenham Festival period, i just find it fascinating. I suppose it is quite useful as I'm editing pages whilst my advertising campaigns are in motion. Looking where people are spending the time is useful, but I just feel like I'm watching a crap reality TV program! Anyone else have this issue?
I know the feeling. I have a Belgian website with about 50 visitors a day. So there isn't a lot to see in the real time statistics. But I check the day total more then 5 times a day.
I use statcounter and addfree stats.You can check ip ,visitor activity along with the ads they clicked all etc details with this trackers
Yeap - sad but true, but I look at the analytic of my sites far more often than I should.
Really I should do it only once a day to review the day, as google is good enough to show pattenrs... but I cant help but have a quick peak every once in a while!
Every time I go there, I see I have one visitor online. I get excited and I look up where the visitor is from... then I realize that the visitor is just me :(
I think we are all hooked:-)
Lol. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sweetbet
BTW, real time obeys profile filters now so you can set one up to ignore your IP address.
Another one I'm bad with is google webmaster tools. Rarely do I get actionable information from it but it's so temping to check how impressions and ctr have changed day to day. Got to stay strong!
You have to be addicted to something and I am for real time analytics. :)
I look at the google analytics a few times per day.
lol
I look at my analytics only once per week :D
It's so addictive but can also be frustrating, for example if you see someone from the U.S clicking on somewhere they are not allowed to play, I have found myself screaming at the computer screen
I check it once a day (in the mornings) to see what keywords I could optimise in my news posts.
However, the real time stats are brilliant and can be addictive - only look at that once a day because if not, would be there all day
I run a Super Bowl site and during the SB the site averages over 50,000 views during that day for the past 7 years. When I look at the Real Time Analytics it causes me great anxiety as I watch the numbers climb and fall in rapid succession - very interesting none the less.
With live streaming posts, I have experienced this when at once around 3k users get in :). I was hooked on it at first perhaps in the first 2-3 weeks, but I have long forgotten about Real Time Stats.
It's not that bad. It has helped me find quickly dead links, mistyped links, links that shouldn't be there at all, valuable keywords!
I only set it up yesterday on one of my sites, unfortunately most of my traffic is football (soccer) betting so have to wait until the weekends to see anything interesting :(
I think every site owner has an addiction to Google analytics in different extents. After all whatever they are doing doing it for traffic and traffic brings them revenue :D
all we need is (not love) :) but statistics, long term statistics (at least one month) so in my opinion real time GA is just a child's play..
Same problem here. Loading up Statcounter about a dozen times per day. Less into Google Analytics these days, especially since they changed it.