Since installing Mint, I’ve enjoyed pouring over all kinds of referrer data, without having to sort through spam bots.
One of my favorite bits of visitor information, (seeing as how I work in the Localization industry), is the language of my readers. Using Marc Garrett’s Parsel Pepper (plug-in), I see that my visitors are overwhelmingly English-speaking.
No real surprise there, but guess what the #2 language is? Believe it or not, it’s Chinese. I have twice as many visitors from China and Taiwan than from either France, Germany, Spain or Japan… (where are my Nordic readers?)
Even more surprising, when I separate out PRC vs. Taiwan, 75% of my Chinese visits are from the mainland. I know there is a huge population advantage there, but I still find that fascinating.
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wrote on Oct 18, 2005 1:36 AM
Thanks for the mention Ned. Glad Parsel is working out for you.
wrote on Oct 26, 2005 7:06 PM
Mint does look really cool. (A stats package that gets better data using Javascript is one of those “Damn, I wish I thought of that” things…)
Anyway, $30 is just enough to make me hesitate. I’m sure that the day after I plunk down the money for Mint the Weed guys (http://weed.rbse.com/) will release their free clone.