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Mint 2.0 Doubles your website's popularity!

haze
Minted
Posted on Feb 02, '07 at 03:34 am

Well, I’m not sure about that actually. Since installing 2.0, mint is reporting more than double the uniques and many more search engine visitors. Reported page views are not showing the same growth.

I did get a page rank boost around the same time, but google analytics is not showing near as much growth. I didn’t touch the mint includes on my pages. Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon?

Screenshots: Check out Monday onwards. http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7742 … 651cd9.png http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8814 … 628qr3.png

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Feb 02, '07 at 10:18 am

Haze, wasn’t one of the third-party Pepper you had installed exhibiting the whitespace after the closing ?> tag issue? That problem (which looks resolved on your install right now) would account for the almost identical total/unique visits (and isn’t specific to Mint 2, the whitespace problem would have affected any version of Mint).

haze
Minted
Posted on Feb 02, '07 at 12:39 pm

I don’t think I ever had that problem, no. This started happening the day I upgraded to v2.0. I only have official peppers installed.

Not sure what would be causing this, maybe I really am getting twice the visitors… that would be nice. It’s just weird because the page views aren’t also showing the growth.

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Feb 02, '07 at 01:22 pm

This usually indicates that cookies aren’t being set which results in Mint counting every page view as unique. This isn’t a new addition to Mint 2, it’s always been this way.

Given the subject matter of the site, savvy surfers may have cookies disabled (or frequently deleted). Are you using UA007? What do your browsers look like? I wonder if it’s a particular browser that’s scoffing at your cookies.

Also, which version did you upgrade from?

haze
Minted
Posted on Feb 02, '07 at 02:41 pm

I don’t think my surfers have anything against cookies… mint cookies are especially delicious.

Browsers look fairly normal, about the same as before upgrading from 129.

Everything else seems to be working just fine so I’m not too concerned. Thanks for your help and a great product. Enjoy the weekend.

Benedikt
Minted
Posted on Mar 25, '07 at 05:34 pm

Hmmmm … same problem here. My Unique Visitors doubled since upgrading to 2.0 (running 2.04 now). Google Analytics shows similar numbers but Analytics also counts my visits and Mint does (should) not.

The boost might come from a WordPress upgrade (2.1) around the same time which switched my RSS feeds from full to excerpt. The boost would be great but I don’t believe the numbers somehow … Google Analytics should have tracked more Uniques too then…

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Mar 26, '07 at 10:07 am

Try installing the new Debugger Pepper. Email me a link to your debugger and I’ll take a look.

Benedikt
Minted
Posted on Apr 01, '07 at 02:02 pm

I’ve sent you the Debugger-URL.

aschlemmer
Minted
Posted on Apr 24, '07 at 02:22 am

Are there some news with this issue? I’m having the same problem with a clean install of v2: Every activity seems to be tracked twice …that’s not so good!

Please help, thanks.

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Apr 24, '07 at 10:33 am

aschlemmer, you have the Mint JavaScript included twice on all of your pages!

aschlemmer
Minted
Posted on Apr 24, '07 at 12:29 pm

Thanks, Shaun.

There is just 1 question left: How could I be sooooo stupid? Please don’t answer ;-)

Thanks again, it’s fixed now.

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