Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Blogger statistics may be FUBAR, or something worse.

 


The above screen shot reflects page views registered by Blogger.  One problem: Not all of them make sense, given at least one anomaly I detected.  For example, one line represents page counts over the last 7 days for a Christmas post.  (You may have to enlarge the above image to see it.)  The big question is: Why would anyone be scanning individual posts made 10+ months ago?

A while back, Blogger screwed up the links to updated web pages - and took time to fix it.  Recently, I noticed that they were under-counting page views - and that took some time to get fixed.  I suspect that Blogger (Google) is making changes behind the scenes and testing them in the field.  One gets what they pay for, and Blogger is free for many people.

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Blogger.com is not the best platform for blogging and for webpage generation.  But it suits my purposes for now.  I'm having a little trouble deciding whether I should code a Javascript widget for my cruise related website or whether I should hire it out.  If I do the work, I'll understand how to maintain the darned thing.  But if I hire it out, it'll get done quicker and I can begin the work to generate a vlog and get it monetized.  Either way, it'll be a bit of work for me.

So, Blogger.com may be FUBAR right now, but it's a cheap enough platform for me to start from right now.


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Blogger statistics may be FUBAR, or something worse.

  The above screen shot reflects page views registered by Blogger.  One problem: Not all of them make sense, given at least one anomaly I de...