Ask News.YC: How do you measure website growth?

Posted by ahsonwardak on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:26PM
from the self-post dept.

My hunch is the answer is: "it depends". How do you measure the growth of your site? Is it based on page views, subscribed paying customers, registered customers, ad clicks? I know the obvious question may be revenue growth, but what about before the revenue starts to roll in? What metric is the most important for a certain situation?

I'd love to hear a whole spectrum of thoughts.

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Re:Ask News.YC: How do you measure website growth? by thomasswift on Monday September 24, 2007 @05:01AM (#58821)

Great question. I'd also like to hear what people say.

I use Google Analytics for site stats, it's pretty informative once you understand where everything is.

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Re:Ask News.YC: How do you measure website growth? by alaskamiller on Monday September 24, 2007 @05:03AM (#58823)

i hate gAnal. it doesn't significantly slow down page loads but it does slow it down. i like how my current host has a version of urchin installed on the backend. i also bought copies of mint so that i can keep track of stats faster and better.

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Re:Ask News.YC: How do you measure website growth? by thomasswift on Friday September 28, 2007 @03:47AM (#60489)

true. nice name for it :)

I had urchin back on an old host, i liked the way it showed referring pages.

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Re:Ask News.YC: How do you measure website growth? by alaskamiller on Monday September 24, 2007 @05:02AM (#58822)

metrics is a big field. my personal list:

1) raw pageviews 2) account signups 3) consistent account activity 4) inbound links 5) revenue

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