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OK, OK! So PBase announced them on June 8th. I wanted to use them for a while before posting my opinion. You might remember from my previous post concerning PBase that most Java scripts were disabled in early May for yet ‘unstated’ security reasons. The big uproar from users was due mostly to the loss of use of 3rd party statistics software packages such as StatCounter, webstats4U, Addfreestats, etc. PBase users were told that PBase statistics were on the way soon. Now we got’em!

Here are the features at launch according to the PBase Site Admin (Emily):

“The statistics pages have arrived! Go to your PBase statistics page at (http://stats.pbase.com). You can also get there from the “view full statistics” link on your profile page.

Aggregate statistics page (default):

See a graph of your total image and gallery daily page views over the past 30 days.

See a list of your 20 most viewed images and galleries in the past 3 days.

Gallery stats page:

See a graph of daily page views for this gallery over the past 30 days.

See a list of the top 20 most viewed images and subgalleries inside this gallery over the past 3 days.

Image Stats page:

See a graph of daily page views for this image over the past 30 days.

Statistics for the current day will be available shortly after the day change on PBase clocks, which are on UTC.”

The gallery/image stats are also accessible from a link at the bottom of each gallery and image page. The link leads to a graph/report on hits over the last thirty days. The gallery stats link allows you to see your 20 most viewed images and galleries for that specific day. You can drill down further by click on the date link at the beginning of each stat bar.

If you are webmaster or gallery owner, is there such a thing as too many stats? Probably not. PBase stats is a nice feature to take a quick look at traffic through a gallery. However, in their current form they are no substitute for the wealth of data provided by 3rd party programs. Anyway, it’s a start and I am sure they will be improved as time goes on. In the meantime, the Java script issue is still festering.

Click on the thumbnail above for a screen capture from my Exotic Birds Gallery stats.

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