Hit Question

photocreations

When I am in owner view and I am looking at my photos or pricing/customizing them, does that effect my hit numbers or do the hits change only when someone visits my site?

kcphotocreations.com

Thank you.

chuckinsocal

I think that not too many people rely on the SmugMug stats. I personally think that you are much better off using the free StatCounter or Google Analytics for accurate stats. It's what most people do and in both cases you can filter out your own traffic.

tittelba

I'd like to know the official answer to this question as well. I also use Google Analytics but I do still use the Smugmug stats.

Thanks,
Tom

photocreations wrote:

When I am in owner view and I am looking at my photos or pricing/customizing them, does that effect my hit numbers or do the hits change only when someone visits my site?

kcphotocreations.com

Thank you.

Andrew Maiman

I don't think it counts views if you're logged in. I've been creating my galleries this weekend and haven't seen the numbers go up. For my unlisted galleries, most of them show no hits at all, which makes sense since only I've looked at them.

chuckinsocal

For some reason, SmugMug does not address their stats function in any meaningful way. They tend to want to gloss over this issue. They have stated in the past though that the stats you access through the control panel are more accurate than the stats you access through the gallery settings. They've never said why or how much more accurate though .

I believe that for accurate stats it's far better to use Google Analytics or StatCounter. They're both free.

Just my nickel's worth (inflation, ya know).