Mint Analytics Added

Friends, a quick post to let you know that I’ve added Mint to the site. What’s Mint? It’s a self-hosted web site analytics program. I was interested obtaining more information about who is referrering readers to the site, popular pages, top searches, etc, but found the tools offered by my web host bluehost lacking. Here’s a list of the datapoints the Mint program is collecting for me here at www.iceflatline.com:

Visits (past-day, -week, -month, and uniques)

Referrers (newest unique, most recent, repeats, and domains)

Pages (most popular, most recent, entry, watched)

User Agent (browsers, platform, screen, flash)

Searches (most common, most recent, found)

The data Mint collects is anonymous; the program does not collect personal data of any kind. My motivation in using Mint is purely technical – better metrics.

Anyway, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about Mint, or this site’s use of Mint, please leave a comment.