New Message: Reliability + accuracy of /stats/ site statistics for Manila sites?

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By: ck (puddincat at gmail.com)

Hello

are the stats offered by going to ...yoursite.com/stats/ for Manila sites accurate? reason i ask, one of my users has noticed a significantly smaller number of reads (like 10,000 less) in the last few weeks. He is worried that he is losing readership, but i have a suspicion that the stats don't reflect actual visitor activity?

lawrence, can you explain how these stats work?

also, to the Manila users out there, have you found the stats offered via /stats/ path reliable? if not, what other tools, like google analytics, would members of this community suggest we use?

thank you so much!!

cass

cass

This is a Manila site... http://manila.userland.com/.