Interesting to see the high numbers for GA. A bit of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ going on?
Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
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#12Interesting to see the high numbers for GA. A bit of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ going on?
Probably because there isn’t a good free analytics service that is easy to use (no need for self-hosting) and is able to collect the info that one wants. GA is free, and easy.
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#13Of those who responded to the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' thread. HN is large. Likely larger than many of its visitors realize because the participants are a relatively small fraction of the readership.
So HN readers are not necessarily contributors. And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so.
If you want to get an idea of the HN readership rather than of the HN contributors you may want to start off by scraping all the profile pages instead, it will give you a much larger set of sample data to work with.
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#14Interesting to see the high numbers for GA. A bit of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ going on?
Every time I see a privacy outrage thread over here I think about how many readers/commenters on this site work for advertising/tracking companies or companies whose products include tracking code. (Full disclosure: I don’t.)
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#15It would be interesting, in a future part of this series, to cross-reference the performance data with the technology used.
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#16That’s a helpful list of Google Analytics alternatives to check out, thanks!
There are 13 websites using Parse.ly, which starts at $500 per month! For a personal blog??
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#17I think I can spot my blog in the Analytics section, I guess I'm the only one using Gauges as analytics.
Yep. That came from annoying.technology
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#18I like the analysis. However, I am curious why entries are not sorted by counts. As a rule of thumb, sorting alphabetically makes no sense!
Also, 382 sounds like a very small number, given the size of HN. I did try to find many blogs I read, but couldn't find one. So, crucially - was it a random sample? Or sample from top-liked, or from a particular month?
some findings (e.g. the prevalence of Wordpress) may depend on this procedure.
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#19That’s a helpful list of Google Analytics alternatives to check out, thanks! There are 13 websites using Parse.ly, which starts at $500 per month! For a personal blog??
The vast bulk of those are medium sites, possibly a volume deal with medium?
http://robotoverlordmanual.com/ https://medium.com/@andzwa https://medium.com/build-ideas https://medium.com/chrismarshallny https://medium.com/ing-blog/tech/home https://medium.com/@matthagy https://medium.com/modern-nlp https://medium.com/open-factory https://medium.com/@romanorac https://medium.com/@soatok https://medium.com/@zakjan https://sidstechcafe.com/ https://vladaionescu.com/
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#20I like the analysis. However, I am curious why entries are not sorted by counts. As a rule of thumb, sorting alphabetically makes no sense! Also, 382 sounds like a very small number, given the size of HN. I did try to find many blogs I read, but couldn't find one. So, crucially - was it a random sample? Or sample from top-liked, or from a particular month? some findings (e.g. the prevalence of Wordpress) may depend o…
At the top he writes how he got the data, from the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' post.