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| Are Clustr Maps Accurate? | | Print | |
| Written by Joeprah | |
I am not sure how many of my fellow bloggers have widgets on their sidebars that track traffic through cool mapping tools, but I seen quite a few of them out there. I picked up the Clustr Maps widget almost a year ago and have found it to be anything but reliable. You might be wondering, Joeprah, where do you get your proof? Well, loyal reader, I used a website traffic analytics tool that I almost forgot I had until recently and what i came to discover was that I have quite a bit more traffic than "Clustr Maps" accounted. On average over the past week I was receiving 100 unique visitors a day per Clustr Maps, but in reality I was receiving somewhere along the lines of 300-400 unique visitors a day. The reason for the difference is that while Clustr Maps is accurate at tracking traffic coming to your site, it only does so for the main website address that your register with. This leaves all referring links unaccounted for. I do have to say that the folks that work for and with Clustr Maps are extremely courtious and responsive and the tool does provide a site with a nice piece of eye candy. And the price, free, is great. Overall, it is something worth considering. It is a neat-o widget, don't get me wrong. But I think it is best used in conjunction with a site analytics tool to give you the total picture of your sites traffic.
 Does this map remind anyone else of that movie "War Games?"
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That big red blotch over Florida... that's me. 
I suppose that is completely possible, although my ego may not be able to deal with that possible truth. 
Perhaps where the count is limited is that, like you said, it only counts those coming to the site via the exact address of Joeprah.com as opposed to all the other possible avenues into the site. I think that I was using it as a counter tool and didn't recognize this limitation. Like you said, you defend the accuracy of the tool and that is more than likely the case since I do get a lot of readers coming to my site via referring sites or links and those readers do not come directly to "joeprah.com"...anyways, thanks for dropping by. 
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