How many people read your blog?
I was just wondering if authors on blogs.perl.org know how how many people read their posts? I looked around the options inside Movable Type but could not locate anything.
If there is a way, could anyone explain please?
I have a solution ...
... but I wonder if there is already one I overlooked?
I set up a free Getclicky (aff) accound and embeded the tracking snippet below. Just to see if that works?
Update: at first I put the code in the BODY part but that seemed to break the main pages of blogs.perl.org so I moved it to the EXTENDED part.
Of course this will only track people who click through to read the full article.
Actually I have been using GetClicky (aff) on my sites. For more than one site it costs some money, but I find it useful.
(aff disclaimer: both of those are affilitate link. So if you sign up through them and if you upgrade to a paid account I might get some coins.)
Update
I have moved the code to the Description. Let's see how does that work?Written by Gabor Szabo.
I blog about Perl.
I placed the Google analytics tracking code together with the description of my blog. It seems to be working.
Cool.
But isn't it a security vulnerability to allow anyone to insert any kind of JS on a public domain like blogs.perl.org?
Won't someone be able to steal your cookies this way?
(I don't know enough of frontend stuff, just a guess.)
@leprevost ah, the thing that shows up right under your name when looking at leprevost. That sound like a good idea. You don't need to paste the code in every post.
@Vyacheslav Matyukhin, only if you don't trust the author. :)
@leprevost as I can see it also shows up in your personal atom feed, but not in the central atom feed.
Hmmm.
I regularly see spam posts in blogs.perl.org rss feed, so no, I don't trust everyone who registered here.
Hey I don't want anyone stealing my cookies. To be honest I don't know if this creates a security issue.