Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Welcome New SI Members! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sawdusty who wrote (23945)	4/30/2006 12:24:08 AM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32917

That's something Bob installed a few days ago to help us measure traffic. It's not supposed to have a noticeable affect; you are the first person to mention it. We're going to moving some servers around over the next couple of weekends so I suspect it will be there until then at the very least. I'll mention your post to Bob when he gets back.

To: Sawdusty who wrote (23945)	4/30/2006 3:24:20 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32917

I'm on dialup at home and not noticing it. However, as Dave said, it's something I've installed for measuring our metrics. Unique visitors, pageviews, etc. Has nothing to do with advertising. Directly. Google bought Urchin, which is the software I wanted to use. We're using a demo version of it now, but it'll expire soon and there's apparently no way to upgrade it. Urchin returns all the same data based on our log files. It looks like Google is incorporating it into their analytics, but it doesn't have the ability to process history. Only what is gathered from their Analytics tag. Which compiles aggregate data for us so we can see and report (as provided by a 3rd party) all kinds of metrics. This kind of data, especially pageviews and unique monthly visitors, is becoming more important in the rapidly evolving ad environment.