Comments on: TestingBlue – First year review http://testingblues.com/index.php/archives/2009/02/testingblue-first-year-review/ Test is the new Development Fri, 04 May 2012 19:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anton Piatek http://testingblues.com/index.php/archives/2009/02/testingblue-first-year-review/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Anton Piatek Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:18:03 +0000 http://testingblues.com/?p=95#comment-328 I wouldn't rely on those statistics too much. For a start all web statistics are incredibly unreliable, but for a blog it gets particularly worse as many people use feedreaders which won't load the javascript used by Google Analytics to track numbers (I for one use a feedreader). You can track feed access (feedburner does this) but I still wouldn't believe the numbers. Of course the reliability only matters if you are trying to base important decisions on the resulting numbers, and they can be quite interesting to look at as an indicator I wouldn’t rely on those statistics too much. For a start all web statistics are incredibly unreliable, but for a blog it gets particularly worse as many people use feedreaders which won’t load the javascript used by Google Analytics to track numbers (I for one use a feedreader). You can track feed access (feedburner does this) but I still wouldn’t believe the numbers.

Of course the reliability only matters if you are trying to base important decisions on the resulting numbers, and they can be quite interesting to look at as an indicator

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