Subtitle: : Making StatCounter.com work on Blogger/Blogspot
Google doesn't offer any built in stats for blogger/blogspot, but it does offer a few recommendations in the help section. The coolest of these in my opinion is StatCounter (www.statcounter.com) The best feature is the world map that it generates with markers where different people who have accessed your blog are from.
I had a bit of difficulty getting it to work for me here on blogspot so it thought i would write up a few notes on what challenges i had & how i solved them for - as they say - posterity.
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First of all - go to statcounter & sign up for an account & all that. I didn't find any of that too difficult, other than slightly tiresome.
When it comes to the generate html code phase - in the "StatCounter Code Setup Wizard" I chose the following:
a) Visible Counter
b) Unique Visits only
c) Counter Image
d) Choose your own colours. I did opt for the "View My Stats" Link
e) I did choose "Yes my website uses frames" but i doubt it matters. I tried "html only" code, but in the end it didn't matter much. In the end i used the default javascript-containing code.
f) I went for the "Default Install Guide"
I got as far as that without any difficulty - where i had some trouble was "Where do I paste this code to?"
After quite a bit of trial and error, I went to the "Template" section of my blog and found i could put it in there. At the bottom of my template there was a commented section that said:
"!--This is an optional footer. If you want text here, place it inside these tags, and remove this comment. --"
Actually i didn't remove the tags as intructed, but pasted the code in between this tag & the /footer tag and Voila - my stat counter is up & running.
It's at the bottom of the blog - scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page to have a look. If you click the "Detailed Stats" link, you can actually see the up-to-date stats for this blog. The "Recent Visitor Map" link at the left of that screen is the cool map I mentioned that will show you where your visitors are from.
At any rate - I hope that works for you & Happy Statcounting.
