I get lots of website statistics information. I like to keep measuring how my pages are doing. I recently was able to install AWSTATS on this site to access my web server logs and get some nice statistics. This was quite complicated and I believe well beyond what a casual user can do. This site is hosted at 1and1.com which has a non-standard hosting environment which made things that much more difficult.
I am now presented with several different sources for statistics.
The 1and1.com stats show that CThreepo.com gets about 2,000 unique users per day, but that includes bots and spiders. I think that the 1and1 software does not count the uniques correctly.
AWSTATS show this site as getting around 600 unique users per day.
The WordPress Stats Plugin shows around 300 unique users a day, but not all of my pages are presented by wordpress. In fact, I have three wordpress blogs on the site, the star finder pages and the book blog, each of which get lots of hits.
MyBlogLog shows about 300 unique users per day.
Quantcast.com shows about 320 per day.
Google Analytics shows about 350 per day.
The last three are based on javascript so a user must have javascript enabled and also not be running firefox with one of the extensions that blocks the statistical sites.
About 60% of my traffic is now firefox, so I do believe that the 300 range is low, but that the 600 range is high. I would guess that I have between 400 and 500 people each day visiting my pages and reading my blog. This spikes every few weeks up to as high as 2 or 3 thousand users when I am getting hits from BoingBoing, Delicious or Stumbleupon.
I generally get about three page views for each visit no matter who counts.
I noticed that I was getting thousands of hits to the captcha images that I use for spam prevention. It looks like there are bots that try to OCR the captcha codes, but then they are caught by the other spam prevention measures that I have. I uninstalled the captcha plugin, just to prevent all of the hits. I now have a a “math question” antispam. This seems easier than the captcha, but I am not sure that the spambots are aware of it.
The traffic is about double what it was six months ago. I credit the change to WordPress with the SEO optimization for much of this. I also check the Google Webmaster Page regularly and watch their recommendations. I submit my sitemaps to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask every time a make a post or change something on the site.