Since being forced off Google’s Blogger onto this WordPress platform a few weeks ago I’ve had a few difficulties adjusting. All in all, it seems an improvement but I lost one of my reader counters, Sitemeter, tht despite promises, doesn’t seem to work. I’ve been using ClustrMaps, over on the right hand side, but I don’t like it because, while Sitemeter had shown a steady growth in readership from zero in July, when I was starting this blog, to an average of 550 per day (with spikes into the thousands when Instapundit would link to me), ClustrMaps shows just a couple of hundred. WordPress provies its own metrics which are okay but they show page view (higher than readers, since readers often view more than one page) and don’t show where the readers are located.
ClustrMaps does provide the latter feature and it’s kind of cool to know I have one reader in Hong Kong, a few in Norway, and all that. But no readers in Africa until today, when a reader in Angola showed up. That’s it! I’ve now breached every continent except for Antarctica. Which is satisfying enough that I’ll adjust to the ego-deflating undercount of readership ClustrMaps provides (or, of course, the entirely accurate count that it offers in contra-distinction to the ego-boosting count of Sitemeter).
4 Comments
November 27, 2008 at 11:53 am
I read your blog everyday using a news reader (Netnewswire) with my iPhone. Using the reader is very convenient because I can download all the new posts and read later even when offline (on the metronorth). Ever since you switched from Google it has become inconvenient because your new service provider only allows downloading an excerpt of the post so I need to go to your website to read the full post. It would be great if you could adjust to allow newsreader programs to download your full posts to be able to access them quickly when offline. Thanks and happy TG.
November 27, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I didn’t know that the default for feeds was set to “summary”. I’ve changed it to full and that should take effect starting with the next post. Thanks for bringing this to my attention – who knew? And thanks especially for your readership. Have a great Thanksgiving yourself.
CF
November 27, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Great! Thank you Chris.
November 29, 2008 at 7:44 am
It’s interesting that Hong Kong can read your site because here in Beijing for some reason you can’t. Thats typical of many blogs though the ones on google rarely seem to have a problem.
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