Ask HN: How often do you look at stats?

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by medianama • 18 years ago

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I spend a lot of time every day looking at daily visitors/pageviews numbers grow from morning to end of day.

Its exciting but doesn't seem to be the best approach. This leads to - 1. Wastage of time 2. Anxiety leading to sub-optimal decision making, in shorter term

What is the best frequency to monitor and review user metrics? Hourly/Daily/Weekly/Monthly?

agentbleu• 18 years ago

GF is addicted and she has hardly any visitors, i stopped looking after the traffic went v high and it was all just boring then.

aaroneous• 18 years ago

Everyone in our (tiny) co watches them throughout the day. If the info is valuable enough it can give you very useful insight into the "life" of your startup organism.

If it's wasting your time there's something wrong with your system or way your presenting the data -- it takes me about 5 secs to pull up and understand a solid snapshot of all our stats.

medianama• 18 years ago

I use google analytics and awstats.

The point is variance in data tends to decrease with frequency. Weekly or Monthly data tends to make lot more sense than hourly or daily stats. But its difficult to resist the temptation to watch is hourly/daily

gsmaverick• 18 years ago

I think you should probably look at them once a week. Don't get too obsessed with pure traffic stats as they can be misleading!

Ask HN: How often do you look at stats?

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