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Aug 25,`09 10:28pm | Quote |

What does this mean? Where is the grand list where I can see how I do? What is going on? Because I have the application downloaded that lets me see my favs being updated as well as how many favs I have. But favs don't mean a lot to me as its the same 7-9 people commenting on my stuff. Is there a away to see other stats more than just daily views? (Which I think are either rounded up or multiplied by 10).

Any help would be nice, also: Please don't click the link in my signature I don't want this to be an advertisement thread. Don't click, whatever you do DON'Tclick.

 
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Aug 26,`09 5:54am | Quote |

Well, to see all the comics listed by rank, you just go to the Browse page and start clicking through each page. The default listing there is the top story/strip, the first 10 listed should match the top 10.

Unfortunately the only stats that DD reports are those pageviews (which are not even unique hits), and the number of favorites in the DD program. If you want more significant data you can add something like an Extremetracker to your page (it's a bit of code you paste into the html/template) which will tell you all kinds of useful stuff. :]

 
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Aug 26,`09 4:36pm | Quote |

What I did is I installed Google Analytics onto my DrunkDuck page, so that I can track the hits and linkbacks and stuff. I also use ComicRank, which lets me see the readercount I have.

The short of it is that DD's stat counters suck and to get a good idea of your traffic, you need an external addition to your site, such as Google Analytics (that's what I recommend!) or Extremetracker, etc.

 
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Aug 26,`09 4:46pm | Quote |

"Metruis" Said:


The short of it is that DD's stat counters suck

Well, they're definitely on the high end; my PW and statcounter stats are always quite a bit lower than here.

 
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Aug 26,`09 5:00pm | Quote |

I've learned from my statcounters off-sight here and then when i moved to my own domain/advertised that DD adds about 10%, sometimes 20% on days when your hits spike like crazy. The admins have said otherwise but with the dozens of counters as i tried saying around the same number with DD being the highest by thousands, it's pretty obvious it's not accurate.
Also for the other domain thing, i bought advertisement and got 800+ clicks from it, my DD counter read my highest views ever at 40,000 and launched me into the top 3. On my off-sight domain i bought advertisement, in total i got 1,600+ clicks from ads that day, my counter read only around 25k. Even with people having read the comic before returning it's still such an off a number to believe, even more so when you account that many readers wont touch a comic hosted on drunkduck or smackjeeves.
*gendou pose*

And yeah PW only counts people with adblock off and even then i think uses javascript to count hits which usually is totally off. You'll see about half-2/3's the hits you're getting on PW.

This post was last edited on Aug 26,`09 5:10pm

 
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Aug 26,`09 5:31pm | Quote |

"Skullbie" Said:
And yeah PW only counts people with adblock off and even then i think uses javascript to count hits which usually is totally off. You'll see about half-2/3's the hits you're getting on PW.
Yeah, PW isn't accurate, but the same factors affect any off site counter.
Skull, those DD hits sound ok, seriously. Getting into the top 3 has nothing to do with page views, only uniques. -which the DD counter system doesn't show to users.

 
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Aug 26,`09 5:33pm | Quote |

I never said DD's counter was accurate. :] It only makes a rough estimate of total pageviews, which is totally different to unique visitors which is the stat most people care about. I honestly have no idea whether the page rankings here are based on views, uniques, an average over time, or what.

 
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Aug 27,`09 10:26am | Quote |

"skoolmunkee" Said:

I never said DD's counter was accurate. :] It only makes a rough estimate of total pageviews, which is totally different to unique visitors which is the stat most people care about. I honestly have no idea whether the page rankings here are based on views, uniques, an average over time, or what.
It's uniques.
100% definitely NOT views in any way shape or from.
I don't know if it's an average of unique views for a few days, but back when I was watching that stuff, comics would have a delay time of 3 days minimum after a lot of hits before a comic rose in the ranks. - so it could very well be an average.


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