{"id":702,"date":"2008-07-01T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/702-pretty-permalinks-improve-stats-reporting.html"},"modified":"2008-07-01T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:33:28","slug":"pretty-permalinks-improve-stats-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/702-pretty-permalinks-improve-stats-reporting.html","title":{"rendered":"Pretty permalinks improve stats reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I reconfigured this blog to use WordPress pretty permalinks<\/a>. I didn\u2019t rush to do this because I don\u2019t mind the default, where the post is identified by a numeric url argument. The new permalinks do look nicer though, and some claim they help search engines, though I haven\u2019t noticed any impact on traffic. The old links still work as well, so nothing got broken.<\/p>\n

One advantage of the new arrangement is that awstats<\/a> does a better job of reporting page views. I can now easily see which posts are the most read. I thought that might be the newer posts, but it is not. The two<\/a> posts<\/a> most read last month, by some margin, are both on why Outlook 2007 is slow. The next is one on trouble installing Adobe CS3<\/a>. Clearly, these are very common frustrations; users hit Google and these posts have a high ranking for these particular subjects.<\/p>\n

I value these stats. They tell me (as if I did not already know) that Microsoft has a significant problem with Outlook 2007 performance; and that Adobe needs to work on its installer for Creative Suite. Web 2.0 is great for product feedback.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: awstats<\/a>, outlook 2007<\/a>, permalinks<\/a>, wordpress<\/a>, blogging<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month I reconfigured this blog to use WordPress pretty permalinks. I didn\u2019t rush to do this because I don\u2019t mind the default, where the post is identified by a numeric url argument. The new permalinks do look nicer though, and some claim they help search engines, though I haven\u2019t noticed any impact on traffic. … Continue reading Pretty permalinks improve stats reporting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-blogging","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}