I’ve recently installed Mint, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It’s basically a souped up referral/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now offering for free. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. And while I have it on good authority that I could weasel my way in through a personal contact, I am more troubled by what is described as a “six hour delay” in the time it takes for statistical information to show up for your page.

Mint is instantaneous. Furthermore, the Mint package hits some (small) nails right on the head. The “recent referrer” list comes with an option to subscribe as an RSS feed. This means that every time a click comes through from a new referrer, I see it pop up in my NetNewsWire subscription. This is even better than the Egorati and EGO-ogle searches I used to do, because a substantial number of sites that link to me do not ever show up in Technorati and/or Google.

By seeing exactly who has linked to me I not only get a warm fuzzy feeling that people are reading the blog, but I also get enchanted by the knowledge that readers all around the world are tuning in. I especially like foreign language links with native (to them) preambles. Today this one popped up on the Radar, a link to my Dell/Apple analysis from Sweden. A quick trip to Systran, yields a translation including this choice introduction:

My point exactly.

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