Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by ig1 » Sat, Dec 11, 2010, 11:40 PM UTC

Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?
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Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by twoism » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 12:42 AM UTC

http://help.posterous.com/how-are-site-and-post-views-calcul...

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by radicaldreamer » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 12:43 AM UTC

There are many things that trigger a "view" for a post and a site: viewing the blog triggers a view for all posts visible on that page. In addition, a view will be triggered by the blog post page itself, bots and crawlers, and http://posterous.com/explore.

View counts are updated every five minutes.

Google Analytics is better at measuring visitors and filtering out impressions triggered by search engine bots, crawlers, or indexers.

See this page for how to set up Google Analytics on your Posterous site: http://help.posterous.com/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-you...

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by benologist » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:04 AM UTC

They're just counting views in a particularly unrealistic but technically not incorrect way.

Seems to be pretty much par for the course, like when twitter announces a billion new users, most of which are probably bots and/or quora.

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by greattypo » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:19 AM UTC

Terrible title. "Fudging statistics" and "not actively excluding bots" are totally different.

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by ig1 » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:32 AM UTC

greattypo wrote: post #5

Terrible title. "Fudging statistics" and "not actively excluding bots" are totally different.

I did actually check a dictionary before I used that term and the definition of "Present or deal with (something) in a vague, noncommittal, or inadequate way" seemed suitable.

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by Xuzz » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:37 AM UTC

(Unrelated/offtopic: is "are" or "is" correct in the title?)

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by icey » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:42 AM UTC

Xuzz wrote: post #7

(Unrelated/offtopic: is "are" or "is" correct in the title?)

It's a cultural difference.

In the US, people refer to the named entity (is). In the UK, they refer to the collection of people that make up the entity (are).

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by kylec » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:43 AM UTC

Xuzz wrote: post #7

(Unrelated/offtopic: is "are" or "is" correct in the title?)

Yes, the poster is from the UK where companies' names like "Posterous" are considered plural:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...

Re: Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:48 AM UTC

Xuzz wrote: post #7

(Unrelated/offtopic: is "are" or "is" correct in the title?)

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