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Managing Statistics in Quick Blogcast

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Last Updated: January 24, 2012 1:38 PM

You can manage your Quick Blogcast® statistics on the Statistics page accessible from the Visitor Interaction menu. Quick Blogcast gives you access to statistics and reports for various features of your blog, including how your visitors are getting to your blog, how frequently they're visiting, what they're viewing, and what posts they're commenting on.

To View Statistics

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. In the Quick Blogcast Account list, click Launch next to the account you want to work with.
  4. From the Blog tab, go to Visitor Interaction and click Statistics.

Statistics Home

On the Statistics Home page, you can select the type of statistics you want to view. By selecting the Day, Week, Month, or Year icons, you can change your site statistics over a set period. Using the From and To fields, you can specify the date range you want to display. Quick Blogcast does not retain statistics beyond 365 days.

NOTE: When collecting site statistics, Quick Blogcast does not include visits to your site from Web crawling bots, such as Google.

On the Statistics Home page, statistics are grouped into the following sections:

Visits at a Glance

A line graph depicts the number of visits to your blog for the specific period of time you specify.

Real-Time Stats

Real-time stats give you an up-to-the-minute account for how your blog is performing in the following areas for the current day:

Hourly Post Views
Displays a list of the most frequently viewed posts for the current day.
Post Survey Results
Select the post for which you want to view the statistics, or select All Posts to view statistics for all posts, and then specify the time period for which you want to view the results.

The Survey Results report displays the following information:
Liked Column
Displays the number of people who indicated they liked the article.
Disliked Column
Displays the number of people who indicated they disliked the article.
No Opinion Column
Displays the number of people who indicated they had no opinion about the article.
Total Column
Displays the total number of people who voted on the article.
Most Frequent Commentors
Displays a list of commentors (by email address) who have left the most comments.
Most Discussed Posts
Displays the total number of comments for each post and the percentage of total comments attributed to each post.

Detailed Statistics

Each of these options lists the top statistics for that section. By default, the top categories display as a chart. However, each section also has a Details link that displays the total and percentage details. Additionally, you can view all statistics for a given section by clicking View full report.

Content

Posts
All viewed posts with the number of views and the percentage of total views each one generates.
Categories
All viewed categories with the number of views and the percentage of total views each one generates.
Podcast Downloads/Plays
The number of plays or downloads for each podcast and the percentage of total views each one generates.
Vlog Downloads/Plays
The number of plays or downloads for each Vlog and the percentage of total views each one generates.
Top Printed Posts
The most frequently printed posts with the percentage of total views each one generates in descending order.

RSS Subscribers

RSS Views by Type
The number of each RSS Feed type used to subscribe to your site and the percentage of total RSS feeds of that type.
Posts
All posts to which users are subscribed with the number of views and the percentage of total views each one generates.
Categories
All categories to which users are subscribed with the number of views and the percentage of total views each one generates..
Podcast Downloads/Plays
All podcasts to which users are subscribed with the number of views and the percentage of total views each one generates.

Traffic

Search Engines
The search engines that were used to access your blog with the number of hits and the percentage of total hits from each.
Search Terms
The search terms that were used to access your blog with the number of hits and the percentage of total hits from each.
Referring Sites
The referring URLs that were used to access your blog with the number of hits and the percentage of total hits from each.
Direct Links
The URLs that were used to directly access your blog with the number of hits and the percentage of total hits from each.
Entry Traffic
In descending order, the most frequently viewed entries with the total number of hits separated by hits coming to your site directly, from referring sites, and from search engines.

Visitors

Operating Systems
The operating systems that visitors have used to view your blog with the number of visits and percentage of total visits from each.
Browsers
The Web browsers that visitors have used to view your blog with the number of visits and percentage of total visits from each.

NOTE: Total site visitor statistics refers to all visits from all visitors. Quick Blogcast Statistics does not currently separate unique visitor information from that of return visitors.

Top Statistics

Check your total visits, comments, and trackbacks, as well as the average number of entry views per day. You can also see a breakdown of other statistics on your top entries, such as which podcasts and Vlogs are downloaded most often and which posts receive the most views and are subscribed to most often.

RSS Subscriber Post Views
Entry count and frequency (the rate at which posts are being written in your blog, per day, week, month, and year), along with the total number of words contained in all posts.
Post Views
In descending order, the most frequently viewed posts with the percentage of total views each one generates.
Vlog Downloads
In descending order, the Vlogs to which users have subscribed most frequently with the percentage of total downloads for each.
Podcast Downloads
In descending order, the podcasts to which users have subscribed most frequently with the percentage of total downloads for each.

Traffic Summary

A pie chart and a breakdown of how viewers are accessing your site gives you an overview of site traffic.

External Referral
The total number and percentage of visitors that have accessed your site from an external site.
Search Engine Referral
The total number and percentage of visitors that have accessed your site through a search engine.
Self Referral
The total number and percentage of visitors that have accessed your site directly.

Top Post Traffic

Top Post Traffic displays, in descending order, the most frequently viewed posts with the total number of hits separated by hits coming to your site directly, from referring sites, and from search engines.