Mint, Cleaker and a Record Day of “Unique” Hits
February 23, 2007
Hello, my name is Adam Walker Cleaveland, and I’m a Mint-a-holic.
For those of you who don’t know what Mint is, it’s an extensible web site analytics program that keeps track of both unique & total hits, referrals, popular pages, Google searches - basically it’s an amazing statistics add-on to your site. If you’re interested in checking out the interface, I’ll even give you a peak behind the scenes of pomomusings, here. So I spent all day today, checking my Mint page. Watching my hits go up, seeing who out there was checking out my site. It was especially fun because I could see the people who had installed Cleaker 2.0 and were trying it out because I got hits from them. It’s a bit addictive - but Matt helped me a bit by alerting by to FireMint - a Firefox add-on - that sticks your statistics at the bottom of your browser window, so you don’t have to keep checking. And I also got the widget. So…I know - it’s a problem, but…
Since releasing Cleaker 2.0 2 days ago, and at the time of the writing of this post, the current download number was 238 - which is great. There were a few sites that helped draw a ton of traffic, but none were as helpful as Weblog Tools Collection’s posting of my theme.
Speaking of Weblog Tools Collection - that listing itself drove over 459 unique hits to my site yesterday. You can see the graph above of yesterday’s stats, but I ended the day with a total of 1166 Unique Hits and 1937 Total Hits. That’s definitely the biggest day I’ve had for quite awhile. Anyway - I don’t imagine my hits will stay that high for very long, but it was nice while it lasted.
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 year old 
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
How do you find Mint differing from Google Analytics? Where does one give you better stats than the other? Just wondering as Mint costs 30$.
Thanks!
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I think the main difference is that Mint is waaaay prettier, cooler, shows you exactly what you need and nothing more, has a ton of plugins, and is, well, addictive. I haven’t found that with Google Analytics.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Ed, yes, I agree with Matt. The user interface is so much better than Google Analytics. Granted, the fact that Analytics is free is very nice, but Mint is much nicer and a much easier to find the information that you care about.
It just took me too long to figure out how to find certain info in the Google Analytics interface - but it’s so easy to use with Mint. The plugins are great.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
did you see where rudy c is using your template now? it’s spreading like wildfire.
February 24th, 2007 at 2:29 am
now bro, when they make a device that will track quality instead of quantity then i will be impressed.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:22 am
There are SO MANY peppers out there for Mint. I just upgraded to Mint 2.03 (from 1.2x) and am liking it more and more. But was interested to why you chose (or didn’t choose) certain Peppers. I was going to suggest Download Counter since you’ve got a lot of people grabbing your new theme (like me)
February 24th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Blake, glad you are enjoying Cleaker. I actually use the Yellow Swordfish Download Counter WordPress Plugin. To date, I’ve had 325 downloads of Cleaker.