I have two, Site-meter, and activemeter. They didn't both start counting right at the beginning, but even accounting for that there's a big discrepancy between what they pick up.
Some people are completely invisible. I know they've been, and when, if they left a comment. But sometimes neither of the counters recorded a visitor at that time.
Now I'm not obsessive about it, honest...
The thing that interests me most, is a) referrers... Where did you come from, a sidebar link on somebody's blog? Google? where?
and b) Where in the world are you.
That's only approximate, of course, the info is where your isp's server is located.
Like this:
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Grit in the Gears
By Details > Visit Detail
Visit 50,137
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| [<<] [>>]
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Domain Name
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| (Unknown)
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IP Address
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| xxxxxxxxx(I xx'd it to protect the innocent.)# (Frontier Communications)
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ISP
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| Frontier Communications
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Location
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Continent
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| North America
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Country
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| United States  (Facts)
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State
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| New York
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City
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| Rochester
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Lat/Long
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| 43.286, -77.6843 (Map)
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Language
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| English (U.S.)
en-us
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Operating System
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| Linux UNIX
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Browser
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| Firefox
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.14
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Javascript
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| version 1.5
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Monitor
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Resolution
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| 1024 x 600
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Color Depth
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| 24 bits
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Time of Visit
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| Jan 3 2010 11:49:46 pm
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Last Page View
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| Jan 3 2010 11:50:39 pm
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Visit Length
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| 53 seconds
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Page Views
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| 3
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Referring URL
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| http://www.blogger.com/home
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Visit Entry Page
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| http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/
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Visit Exit Page
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| http://gritinthegear...NhCBcD1s3awhqM43L6dx
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Out Click
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You're a linux user? I'd never have guessed.
Somehow I thought you might have a shiny mac....
Then again, I bet hmmmmm......
Grit in the Gears
This Week's Visits and Page Views
Anyway, it having just ticked past midnight, and work at six in the morning, oh sadness, I'll just compare the two counters again, see what discrepancy they've amassed on an unusually busy page-hit day.
Sitemeter, 400 page views
Activemeter, 435 page views
Plus the uncounted invisibles...
So if anybody's got a better counter, I'd love to hear of it, G'night everybody....
