I am asking for purely egoistic reasons of eventually getting a good stats package for my company intranet blog.

Thank you.

My criticism (hostility???) was aimed toward the apparent lack of response to those who weren’t happy with the change. Since then, I also asked to have my own blogs removed from Performancing by email, but I haven’t yet been told how to delete my accounts, and ensure that none of my information still remains in the Performancing machine.

FYI, the pmetrics didn’t provide any information I wasn’t already getting from elsewhere to begin with, and I stopped checking them almost right away, although the code is still in most of my sidebars. If I remember right, there were a lot of issues with it – it often didn’t seem to work at all. I will remove all of the code from my blogs once this is over. As far as the Performancing editor is concerned, I never used it again after trying it once, because it did what IT wanted to instead of what I wanted it to. I’ve stuck with my Word Press editor ever since.

Re the new metrics system you have, between my hosting Cpanel, Sitemeter, Tracksy and StatCounter – you don’t have anything extra I need. Furthermore, what happens if my blog does begin to get more than a certain amount of hits a day? I either pay up or I suddenly lose my stat tracking?

I think the issue is that when people sign on with you for what you appear to be offering (in my case, it was simply the FireFox extension,) and you change the stats viewer to something that could poop out on you if your blog becomes too successful (unless you pay,) your Performancing icon morphs overnight into something called ScribeFire, and you inform everyone that Pay Per Post is “acquiring” parts of Performancing … …

Who can even keep track of what’s what after a bit?

I would still like my account deleted and all of my blogs removed from Performancing – and whatever other peripheral services it automatically became part of since I joined nearly a year ago. It didn’t prove as useful as I thought it would, the only question I’d ever asked before this latest issue was never answered, and each time I check in to see what’s happening, things are less and less appealing to me.

Finally, when I commented – nicely, by the way – that you weren’t answering those who were unhappy, and I added that I was afraid my own request to be removed might also be ignored, and you labeled it as “hostile” … it made me wonder just how you would label something that was actually intended to be nasty.

I can just imagine how you’re going to label this post, although there’s no hostile intent whatsoever. I’m even taking the time to explain why I want out. There’s no name calling, no insults, no finger pointing. Nor was there in the first comment. If you choose to see “hostility” there, then I guess that’s what you’ll find – no matter what I write.

Please, just tell me how to remove my blogs and my account from Performancing. Thank you.

Also it is correct that we are only logging human beings. Bots don’t download/use javascript, and even though we have a “noscript” image for users without javascript, bots ignore those too.

Also, don’t forget that the bulk of features for PMetrics are free, provide a registered site gets less than 1,000 pageviews per day.

@raj:
Everything seems to be up and running okay so far. FeedBurner stats and Pmetrics are close with FeedBurner lagging behind as usual (FB has a significant delay in their stats roll-up). Pmetrics seems to update accumulated visits quite often through the day although I haven’t done any dedicated watching to find out exactly how often of course.

@Garri:
Is it possible that Google Analytics, like Awstats, catalogs every visit to your site whether it be from a bot of any type, host/server checks like Fantastico as well as the human type visits whether it be from searches or direct visits? Hence the higher numbers?

Now I believe that Pmetrics, like FeedBurner for example, log in only human visitors which is how I’ve found it to be so far, so the numbers will accordingly be less(please don’t ask me how it does this. That’s for those with their heads permanently wound inside their servers).

I’m admittedly not ultimately familiar with the inside mechanics of how various statistic services run so if any you or any other members find fault with my what I’m saying here, please feel free to jump all over me.

Pmetrics is reporting a third of the stats that Google is, and Google hasn’t finished reporting for yesterday because it’s not real-time.

David, you need to sort this out if you want my money. Or should I go with the getclicky version and put forward some of my ideas for improvements, some of which I’ve disclosed here, some of which I haven’t

I’m wondering why you didn’t disclose your relationship with getclicky in your opening fanfare? You only did when pushed by a member earlier in this thread.

I’m not being antagonistic, just curious that’s all.

Now that sounds like a great feature to add. Make it able to be somewhat personalized.

@Raj

Glad to see everything back up and running again and thanks for doing your best to keep us informed. Spy seems to be picking up the site again but still no accumulated stats yet. I need to give it awhile for things to pick up I do believe.

A nice touch would be ability to brand our metrics pages, which would be good for people who want to make their metrics public in order to attract advertisers.

How about it?

dougk: I hope things are back in order for you.

tonalaweb: ditto. The server problems, I believe, have been worked out.

But that said, the free version offers enough features for the average user.

Since March 31 I have troubles to know real stats in PMetrics always the service is down.
Good service, when work. X|

And..

“I’m inviting everyone to sign up for their free trial of Performancing Metrics.”
¿ Free trial ? Ok, I delete my account maybe tomorrow the service has a cost.

Cheers.

You can do all the mash-ups you like but if pmetrics isn’t working/or lame then it’s a bit like trying to make mashed potato without the vital ingredient: potatoes!

It appears the server password has been changed as well, because I can’t login to check things out, which I immediately tried to do this morning when I noticed something was wrong.

I wish I had more information for everyone, unfortunately I am just the lowly developer of Metrics/Clicky and David is hard to get ahold of

Sean

I sent a PM to David Krug last night due to the fact that the all the comments about Pmetrics (above) appeared to have been deleted including mine and now have magically reappeared and now your response and post has gone missing. I don’t know about you but I’m getting a bit irritated not so much with all the dropouts of data and content on both this site and Pmetrics but more with the fact that there has been absolutely no word or update from anyone about what’s going on.

With bloggers both personal and professional alike putting content up on Performancing, it would seem a matter of significant importance to keep us up to date on the current problems lest their authors become fed up and go off to more fertile and reliable pastures. Sheesh, I’ve never had to complain about the performance here since I first signed on as a member until now. I definitely don’t like it.

Problems are okay—they happen. Not keeping your members and readers up to date is unacceptable.

I’m impressed by pmetrics, at least I’ve been dazzled by the clean and unfussy interface, quite refreshing but in last couple of days it has been naff (i.e. doesn’t really work!)

So, I have a total of 9 visits yesterday, whereas Google has reported 63. Today so far pmetrics is saying I have 1 visit, but it’s way more than that.

Is there something going on we should know about? Burden on your servers? What?

This prompts me to suggest that you should think about adding a status option to your top level tabs, and possibly a forum (make it Vanilla). Both of which you of course have feeds.

I’m also musing over a Google Maps mashup tool called GeoiQ, which allows for geocoding and geographic heat maps. I.e., I could mashup PMetrics data, GeoIQ heat maps, and Google Maps to give an end user a better idea of where their visitors are coming from. If I decide to do that, and can figure out the logistics, I may throw in a time dimension that produces an animated heatmap over time.

I am doing all this on my own time, on my own dime, so I’m only producing a WordPress version of any plugins. But when possible, if I can produce platform-neutral HTML “badges” without a plugin, I’ll try to do so. (It’ll be depending on the PMetrics API.) And all my code will be Open Source, so anyone wanting to port the code for other blog platforms will be welcome to do so.

I was going to offer to remove your sites for you, but it looks like that has already been done. Either that or you never registered in the first place?

Sean