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Wow, WordPress.com Stats will Now only Use JetPack… How Microsoft

by on August 31, 2011

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I’m looking at my blog’s visitor statistics today (the day I wrote this) and noticed this big blue and green banner notice saying that all future updates to the WordPress.com stats package for your self-hosted blog will only be included in the JetPack add-on package.

I’m not reacting well to this enforced method of retaining my statistics package in my WordPress blog.

Finding yourself forced into a package that is overly redundant with processes that I already employ feels very much like I’m using a Microsoft product and being told it’s this or nothing.  I have always preferred the power of choice myself.

Show me something that makes me want it, and I’ll be there.  But not this way.

As if my day isn’t already busy enough, I now have to decide to either blow off my WordPress.com stats package or look into JetPack to see what plugins I have to dump to adopt this thing that I originally did not feel that I needed when it first came out.

The verbiage for JetPack is the same as the WordPress.com stats package… it will put “no additional load on your server.”  Yet I’ve proven to myself, that my own interaction (loggin in and editing) with my site is slowed down considerably when the stats package is in place.  When I disable it, my response time is easily 1/2 that.  But then again, I don’t use a CDN right now.  (That’s for another day… CDN’s.)

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All in One SEO Pack blocked Traffic Growth! [Consumer]

by on January 30, 2010

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This is a fascinating experience of a product review that I’ve got to tell!

Up until recent months, I had 3 web sites that were rather stagnate in traffic growth.  It was frustrating and at one point I was considering just giving up on blogging my own sites.

I also started having issues with GoDaddy with site load times.  I didn’t think that you, my visitor, liked waiting 15 to 90 seconds for a small site to load up. Their inability to detect the issue drove me to another host provider.  I found another host and moved but I couldn’t install plugins or add pictures.  (Long story)

But after I moved, my web traffic increased by a factor of 10.  Literally!  I went from 1 to 10 visitors a month.  Woo hoo!  Not only did I get an instant increase in traffic, I had a very consistent growth slope!  Things were getting fun.  (See New Host point in time on image)

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Getting Twitter Tools Bit ly To Work [Consumer]

December 8, 2009

The other day I was tooling around trying to find if there’s a reputable tool (WordPress plugin) out there that can tweet to different Twitter accounts, depending on the ‘category’ chosen. I didn’t find one that satisfied my concerns of robust suitability but did settle on the Twitter Tools plugin.  I’ve used it before and [...]

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