As of today, I’ve shifted over to using Stats4All (hence the groovy little “S” logo above the “Made by Blogger” thing). I was quite happy with Stats4You, but they’ve decided they have to go for a pay model, alas, and I can’t quite justify paying for hit stat information, at least not while there aren’t free services out there. My ego is not that sensitive.
If you notice anything odd about how the page loads, let me know. The Stats4All stuff is a rather large Java script.
Stats4All has a disadvantage to Stats4You, and that’s that they do (or may) sell their list of users (not the stats, just the users) to others. That’s part of what makes it free, of course, so I can expect an uptick in junk mail.
On the other hand, I can also put the counter on as many of my pages as I want, which is a distinct advantage.
We’ll see.
Last month, btw, I had 1,080 visits; that’s with at least one day, if not more, of AverDorky failure, so the figure should probably be closer to 1,200. A decent, if not wild, improvement over last month. Stats4All does a little bit different job than Stats4You of defining unique visits (twenty minute interval, rather than one hour interval), so the basis for my stat collection will be a little different, too, making comparison slightly more problematic. Oh, well.