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My Divorce With Mint

Posted on 20 June, 2007 at 11:37am

Over the recent months, I have tried to of my web stats addiction, now I have decided to cut this whole problem off at the pass. This weekend, I actually removed Mint from my server – and I haven’t felt better. It is not that Mint was bad, it was just too good. Looking back, I spent more time looking at my statistics than working or writing on my blog. From this point on, I am going to be less concerned about the traction of this site and more so about delivering quality articles, content and experience to the users. It has been a long while since I have written a design article, something I am fairly disappointed about. Hopefully all the time I spent looking and mulling over my stats will now be spent actually doing something worthwhile.

I do not think many folks will argue that the content on this site has been subpar in the past few months. Sure, I have added a photoblog and Comment Love, but it retrospect, that really is not too significant for that amount of time. I have tons of articles in the queue that are half-written, my hope is those can be finished and published within the coming weeks. My congrats to Shaun Inman for making a truly powerful web statistics package – I just found it a little too powerful…

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3 Comments on “My Divorce With Mint”

  • Adrian

    20.06.2007 2:34 pm

    I have been using Mint for probably about as long as you, but I have managed to avoid stat addiction. It is an amazing stat tracker and I almost feel guilty for NOT checking it daily. All that great info that I am not taking advantage of. I think you hit on something pretty interesting, though, that I am noticing from clients. They spend so much time focusing on traffic and search engine optimization and then they don’t concentrate on actually creating content worth reading. Then they wonder why they don’t get the traffic they want. They pay extra for the SEO package and wonder why they don’t get traffic.

  • Steve Tucker

    21.06.2007 1:13 am

    I did exactly the same about 7-8 months ago – now I never look at my stats and it feels much better. No longer do my moods depend on how many visitors I’m getting :D

  • somerandomdude

    21.06.2007 11:44 am

    Adrian – I envy your discipline and self-control. I wish I had it in me… ;)

    Steve – Well, it looks like I am in good company. I can definitely relate with you about mood swings based off daily traffic numbers. In retrospect, it was absolutely ridiculous to intentionally subject myself that type of environment. :P

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