Earlier this summer, we acquired Blogbeat, the nifty blog statistics product, and we're happy to announce that the work of porting the service to our architecture and interface is complete. If you are a current BlogBeat customer, the blog stats team will be contacting you over the next week about enabling your FeedBurner account for testing the service. If you are a FeedBurner user who loves our feed stats and would love love love to use our new blog stats service, we say to you, "oh so soon!" Love is fleeting but statistics are forever. We want to get feedback from the first couple dozen Blogbeat customers we convert and make sure things are working smoothly and consistently before we open up the service to the rest of the world.
What will FeedBurner site statistics include? Plenty!
- Page Views and estimated unique visitors
- Detailed 'by visitor' statistics
- Incoming links including search query referrals and site link referrals
- Outbound links and counts
- City Cloud map of visitors (but alas, no Cloud City)
- More. Really? More? Yes, Really.
Here are a few screenshots to tide you over for the next couple weeks, just to get a sense for how things will look and feel when you use FeedBurner to track your site statistics. As you would expect, it looks a lot like your FeedBurner feed stats dashboard. (Click thumbnails below to view larger images.)
Blog Stats Dashboard
Recent Visitor Detail (with IP addresses elegantly blurred through the miracle of MS Paint)
Visitor Summary and City Cloud
Next Steps
We'll probably take the end of the year to sort out the kinks, bugs, and whatnot reported by the first wave of users, and then we'll open things up to everybody right after the New Year assuming no major troubles. There will then be a series of shorter iterations in order to roll out some follow-on services that we've already identified.
As part of our efforts to make del.icio.us even faster, we’re moving to a new set of servers this Sunday (12/17). This will require a brief site outage, which will begin at 12:00 noon Pacific and is expected to last two hours. We will be posting updates to this blog throughout the process. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience. We’ll get it done as fast as possible.
