Mint Open House
After Ben Gray had asked me a few questions about Mint and the open client mode, I decided to enable client mode on my mint installation. I am a huge proponent of using mint to track website stats. I purchased mint the day it came out last September and couldn’t be happier. It lets me know how many people visit this blog, what they look at, how long they look at it, what comments they leave and what they click to leave my site. It is a very powerful web application.
If you’d like to test drive mint, feel free to browse around mine at paulstamatiou.com/mint. I will probably close it in a day or two so be quick. Letting too many people see it might tax the database a bit much. If you are wondering why my mint is blue, well I played with the CSS. Don’t ask me to release the files to convert your mint, as this has already been discussed. Also, if you have your own mint installation please join my haveamint flickr group and post a screenshot or two.
Impressive. If only all of us could have stats like this.
Paul, If you’d like, you can send anyone / everyone to my mint installation - I keep it open all the time.
http://www.wakingideas.com/mint/
The blue mint IS impressive.
Finally got around to joining your group Paul. (Thanks for the blue disclaimer.)
Nice Mint theme. Also, seeing that you switched to Mint’s hidden title modifier inspired me to do the same. Hopefully my Mint stats will start to look a little cleaner after the change.
Wouldn’t it just be easy enough to use View CSS from the Webdev extension, then save that CSS file?
Or is there more that I’m not seeing (I don’t use Mint personally)…
What is this hidden title modifier that cavemonkey is talking about? Paul, is that something you covered?
I purchased Mint a couple of months ago and I couldn’t be happier, it’s probably the best stats application and I just love the interface!
Derek, I think the monkey is talking about overriding page titles recorded by Mint.
56% of IE user? O_o
Thanks for all the help, Paul. It was great being able to ask you questions and thank you for responding to my emails so fast!
I love mint now that I have it. I highly recommend Mint to anyone who is serious about their blogging.
I’m still in the middle of justifying paying 30 bucks for a stat package, but I’m slowly but steadily moving closer to getting it. Just the aesthetic appeal almost makes it worth it…
Well, it’s much more functional than you’d think. It’s really good at reporting who’s linking to you, MUCH better than Technorati is. I also like how accurately it lists my unique and repeat visitors. Also, the peppers are pretty cool too.
I think you misread that Zeo. Only 25% IE. I can’t believe that many people use IE to view my site, it looks completely different in IE. =/
Thanks for sharing - it does look sweet.
Maybe I’ll make it a present to myself when I can drive the traffic to justify it :)
Paul thanks for letting us take a peak - I got mint on your recommendation about 4 weeks ago and its really worth the $30 I dropped. You had a couple peppers I didn’t have so I went and downloaded them
Jesse you should go for it, if you’re really into learning about all your traffic and what not.
Wow, There are a lot of us Austrlaians visiting your site.
But we have always been early adopters :-)
Opss, sorry about that. It was actually wakingideas.com stats. LOL!
Usually the download link show something like this:
http://www.domain.com/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php?file=http://www.domain.com/files/filename.zip
Is it automatic?
Zeo: i have alot of strange searches for my site.
The most recent funny one was for “Flaming Flamingos”.
Only someone using IE…
Finally I got the mint couple of weeks ago and joined your group Paul. Mint was really handy when I released the 3 column k2 style . But I really like to see mint working on windows servers. Hope Shaun makes it possible soon.
Wow, your browser and platform stats are nearly the same as mine (my Safari / Mac usage is slightly higher). I suspect that’s a typical cross-section of the web-savvy blog-reading user base.
I love google, it helps you bring out the best in your site content — Daniel you probably didn’t realize the importance of writing about Flaming Flamingos, but it really should be an area you focus in on more. I just found out my own true calling for content — antelope lion “better start running.”
My Mint is also public if you want to take a peek. I’m running it with my Ruby on Rails blog with lighttpd and php-fastcgi.
http://nubyonrails.com/mint/