There seem to be an ever growing number of Irish blogs judging by the two main aggregators; POTB and IrishBlogs.
But does anyone know how popular the blogs are?
To date the only ways of ranking Irish blogs has been either via their Technorati profile, or their feedburner stats.
There are a number of blog “top site” lists available, but none of them catered for Ireland only.
I was thinking about that earlier this evening and decided I’d do something about it, so I’ve setup an Irish blogs topsite list
Feel free to join if your blog is Irish ie. if you qualify for listing in either of the two main aggregators.
If anybody has any questions or feedback I’d love to hear it.
Eh? How does it work? People with the most registered votes have the top blog? Doesn’t sound honest to me 🙂
Whats needed is some sort of statistics plugin (would be even better if it was built into default blog installs) – something like Shaun Inman’s ShortStat maybe, that can be polled by your Top Ten at intervals and then you find out the most popular blog. Maybe get everyone who signs up to install such a plugin?
Lee
It isn’t vote based. It’s currently set to calculate them based on the number of impressions and unique visitors per period. The scripts keep track of IPs and cookies to avoid people trying to inflate their ranking.
Michele
Is it only for .ie hosted sites.
Simon
It doesn’t matter where your site is hosted.
Michele
It seems that the stats are not working. Irishblogs.info tells me that there are very few hits when in fact there are plenty every day.
Colm
The stats are working fine. I think you are not seeing them because you don’t seem to have added the HTML snippet to your site
Not true.
It’s currently saying that Slugger has received 60 unique hits today. That cannot be correct. He regularly gets in the hundreds by this time of the day.
Colm
It looks accurate to me. Don’t confuse hits with unique hits.
Don’t worry, no confusion here. To further my claim that the stats are not working, you can check out Twenty Major’s official stats via the link on his page (image link under his Irish Blogs icon). According to this, he has had 278 unique hits so far today. According to irishblogs.info, he has had only 34 unique hits.
I don’t mean this as an attack, I just think that they are not accurate.
spiders and rss readers won’t be picking up the graphic, and so not counting as hits. also, given that it *is* a grahic (albeit a dynamic one) i’m not sure what impact caching (both client and sever) would have on it. but as everyone would be suffering equally by those problems, as a relative ranking, it shouldn’t be too out of whack. internet stats in general should never be reading as being accurate anyway, they’re not. but they do show trends.
Hi Fergal,
I fully understand that RSS hits and spiders don’t show up on the stats that irishblogs.info shows. But at a very basic level, there are lots of popular blogs that show 0 hits early in the day, even after I’ve been on their site.
“It shouldn’t be too out of whack”.
I’m afraid that these stats are hugely out of whack.
as has been pointed out about this system, if bloggers don’t include the required image on their blogs pages which actually registers each hit and the ip of those hits, the system will show zero for that blog. it’s up to bloggers to choose to join the beauty parade or not.
name some of the blogs showing zero that are display the image and i’ll likely as not be able to tell you what the problem is.