saito

Who looks here?

Monday, 24. December 2007, 06:39:35

[From the comments by Haavard, the below stats shows global "their" numbers, not this blog's]

I have thought that MyOpera was viewed by mainly Opera users, but it was not.
For a while, we have access analysys of HitsLink here. I have not cared about those kinds of statics so much, but for the first time I checked it, as shown below;

I was very shocked to know this results

I have another active blog written in Japanese, whose visitors are quite different, in last one month, as;

What a big difference!

Merry Christmas to all ChristiansYahoo! Japan got worse

Comments

grzarban # 24. December 2007, 07:08

Hi man! How are you? Merry christmas advanced to you and your family...

dantesoft # 24. December 2007, 08:55

I assume the blogs' topics are different, so you get different visitors.

I've also noticed that all Opera Mini uses get reported in HitsLink as coming from Oslo, i.e. Opera HQ servers

haavard # 24. December 2007, 10:28

The first screenshot merely shows Net Applications' global stats, and not just for this site. And since they just changed everything completely, it doesn't look like they are very reliable. I am wondering if we should keep using them when their stats are so poorly set up. I'd like to find someone who is actually able to serve relevant stats that don't suddenly change from one day to the next.

I remember back when we started using Net Applications, Opera made a sudden leap in usage. They apparently figured out that they needed to ignore the traffic from opera.com completely, so the stats went back to normal a couple of days later.

It seems that they want to be able to claim that their stats represent general browser usage, and not just the sites that have chosen to use their services. But they can clearly not claim to know anything about general browser usage. They can only know the stats of "their" sites. But now it doesn't reflect neither general usage or usage of their services, because they manipulate the results anyway.

That's how reliable they are. Pick and choose. Exclude stuff at random.

Gotta love browser stats

saito # 24. December 2007, 13:05

Thanks for the clarifications, Haavard. I once saw their another "stats" says the overall shares of Opera in Japan is "1.38%" which is higher than most thought

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=12&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=106&qpmr=300&qpdt=1&qpct=103&qpcustom=*4&qpob=MarketShare%20DESC&sample=1

dantesoft # 24. December 2007, 13:33

HitsLink also reduced the number of recent visitors shown, from 50 to 27 (for a free account). My widget reports Opera's share for my blog at 26% (but it varies a lot).