Lady Elizabeth Wistar will be teaching a class at the Sierra Madre City College on website analytics. It does involve math, but she will take small steps so everyone can follow. Here are some of the topics that will be covered:
- The number of hits on a website does not equal the number of unique visitors. This basic topic will be used to address such claims as, “Already over 2,200 hits on today's post. What is that, 1 out of every 4 Sierra Madre residents?” The short answer is, “No.”
- Definition of a “Hit” (from Wikipedia) – “The number of hits received by a website is frequently cited to assert its popularity, but this number is extremely misleading and dramatically over-estimates popularity.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics
- In addition, “modern” (as in post-1989) web design elements will highlight why including a counter on a website is so 1990s.
- How every time a person refreshes a website it counts not only as one hit, but as multiple hits counted for every file on that page.
- The ethics of using the number of hits your blog receives to inflate your data (which might lead to a falsely inflated ego)
Lady Elizabeth will show that even though her blog has received a bazillion hits, this means NOTHING.
For those who want a more advanced class, you can attend the class on Geolocation offered early in 2012. The course description is as follows:
-IP geolocation sometimes referred to as geotargeting. This is used to trace comments on a blog to a specific address. It’s very easy to do, and can be used to track slanderous remarks about an individual. These files are quite easy to hack into, and blog commenters should be made aware how easily this information can be used against them in a court of law.
35 comments:
So glad somebody is finally detailing what hits are. It really explains a lot. Thanks!
Thanks to Lady Wistar and the research team at the Tattler Tattler, the numbers finally make sense!
This is awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I hear that they have caught wind of this over at the Star News.
hits in the wind,,,,a fairy story, may the glitter be with you all
It's funny that John Crawford talks about your obsession with him, but fails to see his obsession with Joe Mosca. Scandalous!
John Buchanan is a treasure!
I think in Lady Wistar's case we are talking about bong hits.
someone on the patch wanted to know why we post any-mouse, because fairies don't have google or yahoo, or whatevevr,,,,but we have lots of mice to choose from, hence we get to pick any-mouse....
some poor soul, bless their heart, can not find this site....just saw posting on the bad tattler site.
do these wings make my butt look big???
This is what I posted on the Tattler yesterday that has John Crawford of so mad:
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And it's a lot harder to post on your site because you require those weird letters to be entered in to verify authenticity. But I didn't mind, because John Bucahanan is great. John Crawford accidentally posted my letters on the Tattler, then he had to take them down individaully. It was pretty funny watching him have to work so hard over a nice message. Tee hee.
Somebody informed me that they typed in all the lines to the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" one line at a time on John Crawford's blog The Tattler. Although this made me giggle a little bit at first, I caught myself when I remembered the line, "Your heart is full of unwashed socks" and I realized THIS must be the "obscene and uncomplimentary comment" to which John Crawford was referring and wrote about on his blog post today at sierramadretattler.blogspot.com. John Crawford, I would personally like to apologize on behalf of the Tattler Tattler who took part in such defamatory activity. Wow, it must be just awful being on the receiving end of such scurrilous remarks.
do you have something to really offer let me put my name to this
ROTFL...
Please stop with this nonsense. Despite your obvious disdain for Mr. Crawford, perpetuating hate is within the city is more harmful than good, i.e., I only found out about the Tattler and the TattlerTattler by way of your Facebook page. The recent allegations on the Tattler are absolutely not in my favor by any means. But it is a blog, not the Associated Press. It doesn't have to be fact or abide by the ethics of journalism. It is an opinion. Simply put, if you don't like it, don't read it. So please, I beg of you, stop the petty nonsense and sarcasm. Sierra Madreans need to stand together, not be torn apart by idle gossip fueled by people who have too much time on their hands.
Glen Springer: Thank you for using your real name. I genuinely applaud your courage. I do have something to offer: I am currently offering tips on recognizing cyberbullying.
@9:45 I am so glad you visited my FB page! Did you "friend" me? I hope you find some goodness on it.
I agree with you on so many levels, especially regarding perpetuating hate. I think it's great that you realize that the Tattler is a blog and does not have to be fact or abide by the ethics of journalism. I am really trying to get the word out on that.
And you are right about John Crawford's Tattler being an opinion, but I would like to draw your attention to my current post about cyberbullying.
This is not petty nonsense. The Tattler is hurting people.
Glen: Here is a link to the class on recognizing if a blog is cyberbullying: http://sierramadre.patch.com/events/how-to-tell-if-a-blog-is-cyberbullying
There is a check list you can use to help identify blogs that cyberbully.
It's a shame that things have come to this.
John Crawford is a powerless, insignificant, plebeian that desperately needs attention and validation from certain persons in the entertainment industry that fancy themselves as Democratic Party big shots. While perpetually attempting to exact some sort of perceived revenge against a former business partner and various political foes on behalf of his out-of-town handlers and local Party apparatchiks (I'll refer to them as the 3 K's), Crawford has only managed to create unnecessary and possibly even dangerous divisions in a community that needs to be united now more than ever.
I genuinely believe that the person(s) behind this blog is/are giving Crawford much more attention than he deserves. I really believe that Crawford should be dismissed for the clownish, almost pathetic individual he really is, and that the rest of us find more positive and productive ways to build and empower the Sierra Madre community.
@2:47. I appreciate your comment. I will think about what it means to give John Crawford attention. It's actually been wearing me down reading/digesting his blog and comments. I am transitioning to FB to provide a place to post ideas to help Sierra Madre and post positive messages about the people and places that we love in Sierra Madre. Thank you for your time. And I'm hoping that the level of snarkiness will lower when anonymous posts are not possible.
Thank you for the information about cyberbullying. I support the political views that the Tattler promotes, but I do not like what they are doing to our town right now. I will be distancing myself from them. I will be telling John Capoccia and Chris Koerber to distance themselves from him during the upcoming election.
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