started recording some basic web stats about site usage and viewing them with awstats. trying out some basic rules, like:

SkipFiles="REGEX[\/wp-.+] REGEX[awstats] REGEX[xmlrpc]”


to ignore my web traffic as I’m creating and editing posts, and the traffic generated by the measurement tool itself.

We’ll see how it goes. So far, in my 10 years of making sites, I’ve worked with analog (baroque), Web Side Story (byzantine), and Nettracker Lite (hideously broken). Much like security, competent web measurement and analytics are hard.