One feature that puts Blogware far ahead of other blogging tools is its statistics package. If you have a Blogware-powered weblog, you can see more than just how many people are reading your weblog: you can also see how they’re reading it, in all kinds of ways.
The Stats area of Blogware is located in the Dashboard. To get to its main page, click on the Dashboard tab of the Navigation Bar, then click on the Web Stats item in the Dashboard tab’s menu:
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You’ll be taken to the Web Stats main page, which provides you with a quick overview of the number of pageviews your site has received.
Note the calendar on the left side of the page — all stats pages have this calendar, which lets you select the day for which you want statistics. It’s very handy for answering questions like “Hey, what caused that spike in my readership last Thursday?”
The Stats main page gives you not only the total number of pageviews, you also get pageviews broken down into two categories:
- HTML requests: These are pageviews from people viewing your weblog using HTML — in other words, using a browser.
- XML requests: These are pageviews from people viewing your weblog using XML — typically, this is done using tools like newsreaders (a.k.a. “aggregators”).
You can see these statistics for the currently selected day and month.
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The Hourly Stats provide an hour-by-hour breakdown of pageviews for your weblog. This breakdown is further broken down into HTML and XML requests. Using these stats, you can find our what time of day most of your readers read your weblog:
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The Most Popular Articles page lists your entries, from most to least popular. For each entry, it lists:
- Views: How many pageviews the entry got.
- Title: The title of the entry. Clicking on the title takes you to the Edit page for that entry.
- Author: Who wrote the entry (useful for weblogs that have multiple administrators and authors).
- Type: Whether the entry is an article or photo.
- Published: The date the entry was published.
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The Most Commented Articles page lists which articles got comments, from the most- to least-commented. For each entry, it lists:
- Count: How many comments the entry received. Clicking on this number takes you to the Comments page for this entry.
- Title: The title of the entry. Clicking on the title takes you to the Edit opage for that entry.
- Author: Who wrote the entry (useful for weblogs that have multiple administrators and authors).
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You can see which of your weblog’s categories is most popular using the Most Popular Categories page, which lists your weblog’s categories from most- to least-read. For each category, it lists:
- Views: The number of pageviews the category has received.
- Category: The name of the category. Clicking on a category takes you to its page in the Article and Photo Manager, where you can see the list of all entries in that category.
- Type: Indicates whether it is a category or photo album.
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Ever wondered which browsers your readers are using to view your weblog? The Browser Summary page can show you:
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How did people get to your weblog? You can find out using the Referer Stats page, which lists sites that have pointed at least one reader to your weblog, in order of most to least referrals (clicking on a referrer name takes you to its page):
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Whether you use the statistics to further refine your content to reach a target audience or to simply satisfy your own curiosity about your readership, you’ll find Blogware’s statistics pages to be very handy tools.
Feel free to ask any questions in the comments…
