{"id":435,"date":"2007-02-20T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=752"},"modified":"2007-02-20T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T22:41:09","slug":"oafe-google-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"OAFE – Google Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I’ve been blogging blind for so long.\u00a0 I had no idea how many visitors we had every day, or what they looked at when they visited.\u00a0 We seemed to get a few comments on every post, so that was enough, right?<\/p>\n

Well, there’s a whole lot more information available than that!\u00a0 I can see into your *soul*, dear reader.\u00a0 For instance, I know Todd in Calgary checks out forgetful.ca on a gargantuan 3200 x 1200 pixel monitor.\u00a0 While eating yogurt.\u00a0 Raspberry yogurt.\u00a0 With a fork.\u00a0 Do I need to know that?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 But Google Analytics insist I know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One useful feature is a display of where our visitors are on earth, here’s the graphic for last week.\u00a0 Hello Warsaw!<\/p>\n

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Most of our visitors are from Ottawa, but we have a healthy cross-section from across Canada, a sprinkling from our fair neighbors to the south, and a soupcon from elsewhere.\u00a0 Welcome all.<\/p>\n

Also, it’s not my place to say, but for all you that are checking from work, are your employers really paying you to check forgetful.ca?\u00a0 And by employer I mean me for all you government folk.\u00a0 My taxes pay $0.000032 of your salary every hour you’re reading this!<\/p>\n

Finally, you can track how people got to forgetful.ca.\u00a0 For instance, forgetful.ca may show up as a hit when someone searches for, say, “valentine playmate jpg”, which someone from Willis, Texas searched for on Monday, Feb. 12th.\u00a0 I don’t recall that topic ever appearing on forgetful.ca, but Google works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n

If you have a blog, check out Google Analytics.\u00a0 If you don’t, continue to enjoy forgetful.ca.\u00a0 I’ll enjoy watching you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I’ve been blogging blind for so long.\u00a0 I had no idea how many visitors we had every day, or what they looked at when they visited.\u00a0 We seemed to get a few comments on every post, so that was enough, right? Well, there’s a whole lot more information available than that!\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}