New toy: Polls!
So, I got tired of seeing my site stats claim that visits were taking 0.00 seconds. I don’t deny that there may be people spending a fraction of a second here before realizing that it wasn’t what they were googling, but I think I can say with a reasonable amount of certainty that if someone comes here from their livejournal friends page, they are probably planning spend more than a quarter-second reading this site.
It seemed like this might be caused by sitemeter and google analytics not counting time spent on site if users aren’t clicking on anything, so I’m experimenting with having the front page display excerpts from each post so people have to click through to read the rest.
But, of course, that might dissuade people from reading more, or annoy the crap out of them. So I also installed a poll! Please take a second to share your opinion of this change over in the sidebar. Thanks for helping!
I know, Site Meter does the same thing with my site– it usually says 0.0 seconds. Weird, huh?
Beth Fehlbaum, author
Courage in Patience, a story of hope for those who have endured abuse
http://courageinpatience.blogspot.com
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I like the format of being able to read the most recent posts on the front page and then having links to next most recent posts on the sidebar and then archives accessible under that.
Also, I like the search button, but I think you should move it up to the top of the page.
Very weird – it drives me nuts! Neither they nor Google Analytics offer any explanation, either, as far as I can tell. I’ve also heard a lot of people saying that GA underreports their visitors, and I’ve seen that SiteMeter reports fewer than GA, especially recently – which I think is because SiteMeter has been down so frequently. I’m going to try to look at my own server logs sometime soon and see what THEY tell me!
Thanks for the feedback! I have moved the search button up to the top, which does seem like a better place for it