Is there any good counters out there for blogs?

[CumSensei]

Do you know of any good working counters for blogs?
I am trying to find some good ones who can track the complete site in some way and display refers and stuff like that.

[Cleo]

Have you tried Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/)?

[CumSensei]

No I have not. Will do that at ones. :)

[FuckingBastard]

you should try http://extremetracking.com :)

[Fonz]

I'm using google analytics on all my blogs. Gives me everything I need except sales :)

[Beaver Bob]

i haven't put google analytics on my blogs yet, i'm scared.

[Maya]

I have put this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/ on some of my smaller feeder blogs, just to test it. It's really simple, and does what I need it to do, which is counting hits, SE-hits and referrers.

I also used Wordpress stats: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ - a good thing about this one, is that it registers which links your visitors click on :)

[hony]

I use extremetracker for free hosted sites. But most of my sites are on my own hosting and so I process the log files directly.

Google analytics is good but I wouldn't want G to know that all my sites belong to the same person! So I only use it on my mainstream sites that all have the same adsense code anyway.

[smutguy]

+1
Google analytics is on all my blogs.

[boobookitty]

I use extremetracker for free hosted sites. But most of my sites are on my own hosting and so I process the log files directly.

Google analytics is good but I wouldn't want G to know that all my sites belong to the same person! So I only use it on my mainstream sites that all have the same adsense code anyway.

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs :(

[hony]

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs :(

Well it depends if you are trying to make it looks as though they are separate for linking purposes.

Say you are doing "ABC" linking with someone else -- you own A and C and they own B and the links go A->B->C.

The idea is that Google sees that as two individual one-way independent, natural, good quality, wholesome, nutritious, high vitamin, low calorie, gold plated links.

But if G knows that A and C are owned by the same person then of course it is more like a greasy spoon burger than a 5 star caviar if you see what I mean.

Just my opinion of course -- and who knows what G really thinks!

[Beaver Bob]

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs :(

I don't know if you get penalized or not, but this is why I haven't put google analytics on any of my blogs... cuz I'm worried it will.

[boobookitty]

Well it depends if you are trying to make it looks as though they are separate for linking purposes.

Say you are doing "ABC" linking with someone else -- you own A and C and they own B and the links go A->B->C.

The idea is that Google sees that as two individual one-way independent, natural, good quality, wholesome, nutritious, high vitamin, low calorie, gold plated links.

But if G knows that A and C are owned by the same person then of course it is more like a greasy spoon burger than a 5 star caviar if you see what I mean.

Just my opinion of course -- and who knows what G really thinks!

aha.. I see.
Well that makes sense...
*wonders if it's too late to take Analytics off and they will forget*

I don't know if you get penalized or not, but this is why I haven't put google analytics on any of my blogs... cuz I'm worried it will.

I can understand why now.