Web metrics
Is there a plugin or service available that would give us metrics on something as micro as our individual blogs? Can our server logs help? I've checked MT documentation and can't find anything, but it just seems like it would be a normal need. I've been on blogs that have been able to provide information like number of visitors, IP addresses of subscribers, spider hits, click-through on sidebar links, referring websites.
3rd party metric services
Right now, the closest you can get is using a 3rd party metric service that uses a client side script for collecting data.
Google Analytics is one such service. Sitemeter is another. They'll give you a little snippet of code to add to your template. You'll probably want to add this to your footer template and rebuild your blog. Let me know if you need help with this.
Thanks Brad. Sitepoint has a
Thanks Brad. Sitepoint has a free basic service, but has some terms of service I have to think about.
If I sign up with the URL for my PASS www index.html, in theory wouldn't it cover all the blogs in my PASS space www folder as well?
I am not familiar with
I am not familiar with sitepoint, but I don't see why you couldn't track your whole www directory. You would probably need to add the tracking code to each page in your www folder, though.
With blogs@psu, you could add the tracking code to every page in a blog by adding the code to the footer template.
sitemeter. Not sitepoint
Geez, too many windows open. I checked the two you suggested. Thanks and sorry for the miss-communication. If I have to add tracking code to each page that I want tracked instead of just once in the top level, I'm sunk. The guts of my static site uses includes, but that footer wouldn't include the blogs. Again, thanks for the help. I'll read more.