Performancing Metrics was most likely the all time favorite metric system available for bloggers who wanted a statistics service that was tailor-made for blogs and it offered the most features out of all of them at no charge to the user. It came as a bit of a shock to all when it was announced that Performancing Metrics would be taken down due to the fact that it had grown too big to handle for the resources at hand and was sadly missed indeed among those who had depended on this fine statistics engine. Ironically enough, I had just gone over to a self hosted Wordpress install and was ready to sign up myself when the everything hit the fan and Metrics disappeared.
But no longer apparently. I have been a Performancing member for about a year now and although I haven’t written much content to date, I do check in faithfully every few days to see how things are going along and this morning when I banged into the site (much to my surprise) there was a new tab in the header of the main page called pmetrics and believe me, I didn’t waste any time checking it out.
And So…
As of 11:00 am my time (03-25-07) (east coast USA), the new Performancing Metrics has been percolating on my blog compiling all that wonderful data that will show me exactly how many readers I don’t have. That’s okay though since the blog the service is hooked to is my personal blog that rides on no specific road but rather wanders about as it pleases. Still, having the metrics system I thought was gone forever back where it belongs gives me a good feeling that the Performancing group is back on top of things and working hard at getting the job done once again.
Like the new ScribeFire editor, Performancing Metrics apparently was sneaked out with no fanfare or announcement on the site at first or at least none that I could find anyway. I could be wrong here about the lack of fanfare and I’m sure they’ll let me know if I am. Meanwhile, I’m going to thoroughly enjoy being a member and using their metrics system to my advantage (grin). And I won’t hesitate to pony up the highly unreasonable (grin again) amount of $14.95 for the yearly subscription to the Premium service for the couple extra features (and more to come) even though my site hardly warrants it.
So far I'm quite pleased with all the information the new Metrics supplies. Since the other purpose of my personal blog is to gauge for myself what brings in readers and what doesn't in preparation of deciding what type of niche I may want a second blog I'm planning on to ride in. Other statistics engines serve that purpose more or less and but I find myself relying on three different type of stat services (Google's Webmaster Tools, FeedBurner site stats and Awstats provided by Bluehost) on a regular basis and still not getting the whole picture that I'm looking for. So far, the new Pmetrics looks like it may well provide this whole picture I've been looking for and all in one place.
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