In defense of using analytics on your personal blog json.blog
@jsonbecker This is a wonderful post and, in a way, also put into words to explain my rekindling of interest in analytics without being distracted or influenced by what I write about. This particular excerpt was enlightening:
What I do care about are referrers. Without webmentions proactively telling me when folks on the web mention my content, I can see if anyone who read that post clicked on the link to my site and ended up here.
In the days of WordPress trackbacks, it was more seamless, and sometimes even people I didn't want to ping ended up being informed of my post 😅 So in that sense if wish I was told about those bloggers even if no one clicked that link to my post coz I know at least they read it and liked it enough to post on their blog.
@pratik @jsonbecker Totally agreed, thanks for writing it. Found myself nodding along. Referrals are the most exciting thing, and I’d actually like if @tinylytics emphasized them more. I’ve never been clear though…do referrals come in automatically from everywhere, or only sites that use some sort of logic to append a ref onto their outgoing links?
@jsonbecker @jarrod technically speaking, how did trackbacks work? Or did they only work between WP sites?