Ben Tremblay » statistics http://bentremblay.com/en The web, what matters, common sense Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Average Hides What Matters http://bentremblay.com/en/average-hides-what-matters http://bentremblay.com/en/average-hides-what-matters#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:15:34 +0000 Ben Tremblay http://bentremblay.com/en/?p=1386 Average hides what matters (statistics worth caring about), whether it's in Web analytics or any other field

]]> http://bentremblay.com/en/average-hides-what-matters/feed 0 Twitter analyzer: Google Analytics for twitter http://bentremblay.com/en/twitter-analyzer-google-analytics-for-twitter http://bentremblay.com/en/twitter-analyzer-google-analytics-for-twitter#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 02:31:47 +0000 Ben Tremblay http://bentremblay.com/?p=966 twitteranalyzerI found a very useful online tool for all of you, twitter lovers. The service is called twitter analyzer and it is some sort of Web analytics software, but for twitter. Honestly, I don’t know if there is some sort of service similar to Twitter Analyzer so you’ll tell me if it’s not the best tool out there, but so far from what I’ve seen, it is pretty powerful.

My favorite feature is by far the “How many of your followers are online” which gives you, as you expect, how many of your followers are online at the moment. Pretty useful if you want to share a link or one of your post and want to maximize exposure. Of course, that’s only one of the many features of twitter analyzer.

Features

Here are the main features from the Twitter Analyzer website:

  • See how many of your followers are OnLine Now!!!
  • Want to know how many readers have been exposed to your messages?
  • Want to see your Tweeting Habits?
  • Who Retweets Your Messages?
  • Want your Twitter follower stats?
  • Want your expected Twitter Followers growth rate?
  • Want to increase Twitter following?
  • What other people are writing about you?
  • How popular are you (and your friends)?
  • Can’t keep track of all the Tweets sent to you?
  • Who the close friends of your friends are?
  • What are your friends’ occupations or job positions?
  • How big your Twitter audience really is?
  • What are your followers doing right now?

Try it

It’s pretty simple to use and very straight forward so try it and let me know what you think!

]]> http://bentremblay.com/en/twitter-analyzer-google-analytics-for-twitter/feed 18 Stop refreshing your website stats http://bentremblay.com/en/stop-that-stats-refresh http://bentremblay.com/en/stop-that-stats-refresh#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:47:12 +0000 Ben Tremblay http://www.seohorror.com/?p=12 Do you spend half of your day refreshing your stats? Are you going in between AdSense, StatCounter, Google Analytics and MyBlogLog all day long? It is important to be aware of your stats and also very important to analyze them but at what cost?

If you are that kind of person, you should really reconsider the amount of time you spend checking your stats. It is a common thing when trying to monetize your website to constantly refresh your AdSense account in the hope of seeing a couple of cents/bucks or refreshing your StatCounter account hoping for some visitors. It is absolutely ok as it’s part of the game, but it can become obsessive. Think about the time you spend online checking your stats for no reason and think about the time you could spend building backlinks or writing content.

What I’m trying to say here is don’t be too obsessed with your stats at first. Concentrate on building some good original traffic and save that stat analysis time for when it’s really going to be needed. Don’t take me wrong here, stats/traffic analysis is important, but it has to be part of a full strategy. If you refresh your AdSense account 100 times a day, you are loosing precious time you could spend elsewhere.

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