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Tangent: I once stopped logging visits on a website of mine because the actual metric I care about is the user interaction through comments (and using certain f
by hnha 13y ago
Tangent: I once stopped logging visits on a website of mine because the actual metric I care about is the user interaction through comments (and using certain features on my site). I can highly recommend this if the anonymous visits to a site actually really don't matter to you.
- yeldarb 13y agoBut then how do you know whether your lack of comments is because there isn't a large enough pool of potential commenters or if your content isn't engaging enough to incite them to post? You're throwing away the top end of the funnel so it's impossible to know whether it's leaky or just completely dry all the way through.
- laumars 13y ago> "But then how do you know whether your lack of comments is because there isn't a large enough pool of potential commenters or if your content isn't engaging enough to incite them to post?" The solution to either problem in those examples is the same. More engaging content will drive more visitors to the site as well as stimulate more conversation. However I do agree with you in theory about how it's good to keep a log of traffic; with the caveat that it's not used as the primary measure of activity when conversation is end goal of the site.