re: Statsaholics Anonymous

Kevin Gordon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:03:51 GMT

Hi Jack,

Stats are addictive reading by their very nature.

However, like the man standing at the one-armed-bandit doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result, it's good to break off them from time to time and look for the opposite viewpoint. That way you get a more balanced empirical result of reality than a hoped-for outcome by spike fishing.

re: Statsaholics Anonymous

Simon K — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:12:44 GMT

Hi Jack

I went cold turkey when I realised that, in my case, it was totally counterproductive. People visiting my site from search engines were mostly coming in via completely unrelated keywords and bouncing immediately. While the easiest way to get a spike in traffic seems to start a flamewar or write a list. I'm now happy to check my stats once every so often to ensure that the nice upward trend is, generally, continuing.

Cheers

Simon