Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

So Jeremy and I have been playing around with Google Analytics since around June of last year. (He got into it about a month before me, as with most things, Jeremy is recon or guinea pig.)

The past few weeks I have been logging into my Analytics account and looking at my stats for this month. They provide you with some of the best (free) web statistics reports that I have seen.

The interesting thing that I have noticed is that the month of February has been possibly the most popular month for my blog. Now, I am not political pundit, nor am I making a living off my blog.

I try to post things on the blog here that are more interesting than what I had for dinner or what cute thing the dogs did this week. However, I do occasionally give posts that are somewhat of that nature. In part, because my family reads my blog to keep up to date with what is happening down here in Tejas. Given that I work in the telecom industry I should probably call and give said updates more often, but a lot of the time my schedule doesn't meet up with theirs, or they might be over their cell phone minutes (Rachel).

Anyway, for those of you who might happen to find my blog, read more than one post and enjoy it, thank you visiting. For those of you that found my blog by way of Google and didn't find it interesting, sorry, check back later, it will probably be more interesting then.

Anyway, here are some partial screenshots from the Google Analytics dashboard. I love the graphs and "Geo Map Overlay" thing they do.

January


February


In the month of January I had enough referrals from Jeremy's 90in9.com site for it to show up in the top 5. This month not enough to get it's own listing in the pie chart, I just checked and 10 referrals this month.

But the month isn't over quite yet so maybe 90in9.com can make it into my Top 5 referral list.

I really do have to say that if you have a blog or any sort of website. You need to sign-up and use Google Analytics, it is a great package. There is a ton of functionality that I have even yet to begun to tap into. One thing I know is that my site ends up being visited by folks because of the name "Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words".

Of which, I don't really do any lists of Three-Letter Acronyms or Four-Letter Words. Maybe I will have to setup some sort of little project to do just that.

As a whole, I don't really market my site. One of these days I will. But for now, I am content with passing on information of what has been happening to friends and family. And occasionally posting my pontifications about something I found interesting, or sometimes I just like to make a post about the funk.