Comments on: Feedjit Customized Widget Shows Real Time SiteTraffic

By: lotis

lotis — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:18:28 +0000

its cool, in that you can see where visitors come from, not just the country but from what site as well

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:52:19 +0000

Shows me 400km away in different city and state.
Not nearly as accurate as other geo locating solutions.

By: Tony Wright

Tony Wright — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:55:06 +0000

Very cool widget– touches on the very basic desire of all bloggers to be heard/read… And unlike MyBlogLog, it attaches an identity (or at least a nationality!) to every visitor without requiring any sort of registration.

By: ipanema

ipanema — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:52:30 +0000

So far I like it. It’s nice knowing where the readers are from. And I hope people will get to know the world map. ha!

Now, those who search for sex/prostitution in my blog will be put to shame because only I know which countries and IPs search that. Now it’s out in the open, people would think twice what they type on search engines.

By: Webee

Webee — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:01:18 +0000

Nice plugin for instant stats of the readers.

Webee

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:11:44 +0000

Already in Vista, if you drill down!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Rajesh Shakya

Rajesh Shakya — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:28:51 +0000

Cool widget.

Rajesh

By: Kevin Bartus

Kevin Bartus — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:31:09 +0000

I’m sorry - this is cool.

Kind of like seeing yourself in those street cams in a store window - always a little bit jarring in an endearing way to see yourself reflected in someone else’s experience.

Don’t understand all the haters - it’s not like the widget is required by law. Some bloggers will add it, some won’t, if you don’t like the overall experience, you’ll leave.

Not like most bloggers are making money at this, anyway.

By: fistball

fistball — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:17:40 +0000

I also found out that, there are actually plenty of Malaysian Readers!!!!! even …. “cooler”..hahahaa….

By: fistball

fistball — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:16:29 +0000

I am not from Shah Alam, Selangor. I am from KL, KL, but I am still from Malaysia. So, is kind of accurate in 80%. But is still kind of cool.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:59:01 +0000

Pretty cool. Though I like MyBlogLog w/its profile pics better.

By: rc

rc — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:59:21 +0000

i have been using the map on my blog
since it launched it is very easy to use
and it really nice to know fron how many
different places you have readers maybe
the city location is not always correct
but the country is correct my blog is very
popular in europe but i found out i have also
readers in australia and asia and america

blog name: trading tennis
you can search in google

By: nbc

nbc — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:23:00 +0000

I was reading this post and saw that the last user was someone from Perth, Western Australia which is a lonnng way from anywhere. Then I realised that was me… cool! Who knows what good it is but I’m still impressed.

By: maurizio

maurizio — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:51:01 +0000

I don’t know you, but all those widget shows me in different cities every time I see them. And Always at least 200km from where I live.
Useless.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:42:10 +0000

The growth isn’t ‘viral’ strictly speaking, Michael.

There are other widgets that do similar things but not quite as well or as simply:
wholinked.com
wholinkstome.com
top-referers.com
gvisit.com
getclicky.com/blog/76/apiwidget-contest-winners
tools.blogflux.com/whosonline/

The next improvement for this widget would be a live scrolling display similar to Digg spy, eg, something like this:

headzoo.com/live

and also make the widget customizable, eg just show referrers.

and they could improve their homepage to show trends in read stats eg:
blogstorm.co.uk/tracker.php (which presents like spotplex.com) and this could be done without the creation of webmaster or webuser accounts.

The founder of Feedjit speaks of the quick rise to its growth as a result of adoption by two high profile Japanese bloggers after coverage on 100shiki.com :
markmaunder.com/2007/scaling-from-0-to-40-hits-per-second-in-3-days/

Without webmasters creating user accounts or web surfers creating user accounts (as seen with MyBlogLog) I don’t see much more potential for FeedJit - what’s stopping say MyBlogLog from replicating that functionality? I first learned of Feedjit at YC news:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:41:15 +0000

The growth isn’t ‘viral’ strictly speaking, Michael.

There are other widgets that do similar things but not quite as well or as simply:
wholinked.com
wholinkstome.com
http://www.top-referers.com
http://www.gvisit.com/
getclicky.com/blog/76/apiwidget-contest-winners
http://tools.blogflux.com/whosonline/

The next improvement for this widget would be a live scrolling display similar to Digg spy, eg, something like this:

http://www.headzoo.com/live

and also make the widget customizable, eg just show referrers.

and they could improve their homepage to show trends in read stats eg:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker.php (which presents like spotplex.com) and this could be done without the creation of webmaster or webuser accounts.

The founder of Feedjit speaks of the quick rise to its growth as a result of adoption by two high profile Japanese bloggers after coverage on http://www.100shiki.com :
markmaunder.com/2007/scaling-from-0-to-40-hits-per-second-in-3-days/

By: Prem

Prem — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:51:55 +0000

it`s really a cool tool for seeing the regions of the world who are accessing your website..Thanks TC.

By: rc

rc — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:50:27 +0000

very usefull
i have it for a month now

trading tennis

By: Word Hugger

Word Hugger — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:23:04 +0000

I agree with the first two posts. I never really understood the need, but it is a cool feature none-the-less.

By: Elias

Elias — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:36:13 +0000

I’ve had it for about two weeks now, and think it’s an excellent tool. From a blogger point of view, I can track where my visitors are coming from much quicker rather than crawling through my logs.
As mentioned above, it’s a good marketing tool because it can prove the diversity and volume of your traffic as well to your readers.

I don’t think you lose visitors - the script for example shows people leaving, and often I’ve noticed, they leave multiple times implying they check our your referral traffic but come back to read your content again.

Widgets like this make good business sense. There are some things that do not always directly translate into cashflow, that are actually useful - and this is coming from an accountant! If anything, it adds a bit of life to your blog because it shows other people actually visit. Perception matters.

By: Dave L.

Dave L. — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:04:12 +0000

@Don:

It depends on what the widget does, I think. If it is something that adds value to your site, like an easy way to rate things or leave comments or share photos, that you, the site owner, couldn’t do well/afford on your own - then I see where they would have a purpose. But if all you are doing is adding tetris and pacman to your site then I agree that they are nothing but a distraction. That said, maybe tetris would add some value to someones site.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:02:02 +0000

like this one.

By: Derek Anderson

Derek Anderson — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:57:26 +0000

Too many people love widgets to ignore their potential for profit. You can complain till you turn blue in the face but look at the recent stats released by slide.com…a million widgets created a day. Damn!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:37:36 +0000

It could be a good idea to “ad” this to to your demographics page if you are a local or regional site/blog selling extremely targeted advertising. If you do not like to release your logs, 3rd party numbers are very helpful…maybe even worth a low monthly subscription if proven valuable.

I think this is a good find.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:29:46 +0000

Another pointless crap to add to your page so you can distract your visitors from actually using and sticking to your own site. Don’t people who put stuff like this on their blogs/sites realize they’re losing users because of stuff like this?!