best (most accurate) stats? without my IP?

[canadave]

Hey all,

Got a question. I'm running a (very) small podcast off a Hawk Host server, and I was hoping to use awstats to get an idea of how many people are hitting my feed.xml and mp3 files. However, quite a bit of the hits I see in awstats are from me doing uploads, testing, etc. I assume that awstats on Hawk Host does not make allowance for excluding my own IP?

Assuming that's the case, can someone give me some tips on how I might obtain a more accurate reading on my podcast stats? I'm no expert, just an amateur hack, so I'm hoping it'll be something simple

Thanks!

[Cody R.]

Hey all,

Got a question. I'm running a (very) small podcast off a Hawk Host server, and I was hoping to use awstats to get an idea of how many people are hitting my feed.xml and mp3 files. However, quite a bit of the hits I see in awstats are from me doing uploads, testing, etc. I assume that awstats on Hawk Host does not make allowance for excluding my own IP?

Assuming that's the case, can someone give me some tips on how I might obtain a more accurate reading on my podcast stats? I'm no expert, just an amateur hack, so I'm hoping it'll be something simple

Thanks!

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this with the standard analytics software - your best bet is to let the visits / stats average out so the numbers are a bit more accurate. One thing you could look at is unique visitors which shouldn't count the same visitor for each request.

I believe with Google Analytics you can filter down unique views for each request (IE: feed.xml) so that may be something you want to look into .