SITEMETER
While it used to be occasional, it seems SiteMeter is on the fritz constantly anymore. It repeatedly tells me that I haven’t had any visitors in the past 20 minutes, which would be more plausible if I weren’t getting e-mails and TrackBack pings during that same temporal span. Then, as if by magic, my count jumps up the next time I check it.
While I’m at it, their banner ad always seems to feature a not-very-appealing blonde girl, who’s reportedly domiciled in Virginia (is this a coincidence?) and claiming to be my dream girl. While I’m willing to concede that the photo on display might not be representative, the fact that she’s looking for a fellow anywhere from fifteen to two years my junior is also troubling. Perhaps she’d be more suitable for the Nigerian fellow whose business ventures I keep getting?
I think that the ad is chosen based upon IP lookup for location – mine says ‘Oklahoma’.
Interesting. What’s the chick from Oklahoma look like?
🙂
I don’t think SiteMeter has ever been a realtime system.
On the other hand, it *is* free.
Good point:)
I get my main stats from Hosting Matters, but they’re only scanning daily.
I have the solution, every time I visit your site I will also send a “Can you hear me now” email message
This girl?
Sitemeter tells me she’s from Louisville, KY.
Ah, stripped HTML. Here she is:
http://www.cdharris.net/multi/dreamgirl.gif
That’s the same girl! What a gyp!
No, they’re all clooooooones!
that’s the “not-very-appealing” girl? no wonder i can’t get a date…
i use addfreestats (sic) and i’ve found it’s a lot more reliable than sitemeter. plus it has a longer “most recent hits” list.
Tanya, Interesting. I get very reliable stats from Hosting Matters. I mainly use SiteMeter as a backup because it allows me to compare my traffic from the earliest days of OTB’s existence on BlogSpot and because it’s something of a “standard” that many of the big blogs use.
And the girl in question might be fairly attractive in person. The lighting–and especially that hairdo–make her unappealing in the photograph.
i always forget that hosting matters even has stats. (even tho my counter is run by them) i’m sure it’s much more accurate.
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