lj stats question

[marguerite_26]

I updated my Merlin rec lists today and I was going into LJ my stats thingy looking to see if more people clicked the 'Modern AU' or the 'Canon Era' rec list - because, you know, curious and I noticed the RSS tab.

Can anyone tell me what those numbers mean? I know what an RSS is, I'm just curious if the numbers that lj is showing is accumulative or new followers? Not that it is exactly high numbers we are talking about. LOL. But I'm curious how exactly to read a number from one day to the next?


Oh, and if you are interested: Today (so far) more people checking out the Modern AU recs than the Canon recs (despite the fact that the canon rec list appeared first in the list when I posted them).

Comments

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It's a bit clunky, and I don't care much about stuff like this so I find the number don't always make sense and that's okay by me. :)

If you want to know journal traffic in general you go to the 'journal tab' it'll tell you how many times your journal has been viewed. IDEK the purpose of 'page views' totally useless info. Actually most of it is useless because it counts people refreshing their flists which has no bearing on who is reading your journal entry, right? 90% of my flist scroll past my babbles and never read. I'm not naive. LOL.

What is useful is looking up entry specific stuff. so if you click the 'entries' tab, then scroll down you can pop in an address of an entry.

The 'page of entry' number is what you are looking for. It counts people who actually clicked to read your post (not scrolled past in in their flist. useful!

I don't use anything else on there.

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

That helps clarify a lot; reading LJ's descriptions helped clarify little to nothing.

Thank you! :)

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

Since you're explaining so helpfully, can I ask something I've been really wondering about? On each bar of the bar graph, there are logged in LJ users and all visitors (I ignore 'page views' for the reasons you cite). Today there were like 20 non-LJ users who read my entry and I'm like O_o!! Maybe it's just because I'm always logged in, but who isn't on LJ and yet reading entries? Because you can't see your flist if you're not logged in, right? There's probably an obvious answer to this, but it's escaping me.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

LJ is FULL of lurkers. Lurkers who have LJs, and lurkers who don't. I'm not sure about HP, but in Merlin there seems to be a large number of fans who follow newgroups through feeds or just literally click on the comms/personal LJ that they follow every day. I find the idea cumbersome but I guess if they have bookmarks and tabs open and such they can quickly check the people they follow without looking at a flist. Or they track based on tags, I guess? IDEK.

Just looked up some stuff and it looks like about 1/4 of my 'all visitors' is consistently non registered LJ users. Maybe that's answers my RSS questions partially? IDEK.

so yeah... that's like a lot non-lj users lurking.

To me, having an LJ makes stalking someone so much easier! I'm far to lazy to stalk without it. LOL.

IF THERE ARE ANY FOLKS WITHOUT LJs LURKING HERE AND CARE TO ENLIGHTEN US, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR! FEEL FREE TO DROP IN! :)

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

It's super interesting to get these little glimpses of how people use LJ differently from me. For me it's all very personal, so that I even feel weird sometimes if I, say, read an intriguing comment by a stranger then click on their username. I feel like I should leave a little note saying who I am and why I'm there. I also very much assume that the only people reading my entries are on my flist. I think it's different for you, since you're such an active reccer in Merlin fandom (among other lovely things); it makes sense to me that people might follow a tag. But it still seems like more trouble to be an unlogged-in lurker than to be logged in and able to comment and have a flist. Maybe for you it is all down to people with RSS feeds (which I still barely understand). In summary, however, LJ is fun, and it's all good. :)