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Is webstats4u (formerly Nedstat) hurting your site?
Mark Ghosh 
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Is webstats4u (formerly Nedstat) hurting your site? All traces of Nedstat and/or webstats4u have been removed from all of my sites. There are many reasons for this removal.
- The popups were just pure annoying
- The popups might be violating AdSense (and other ad package) policies in spite of the fact that the popups were not contextual.
- Though there is no empirical data to prove it, I have read in the past that popups might reduce Google traffic
- Though there is no empirical data to prove it, I know for a fact that a large percentage of web visitors hate popups
- I refuse to allow the kind of tactics that webstats4u has decided to employ
- There are way too many good online statistics packages (free ones) for anyone to continue using webstats4u
In addition to the above, I would like to clear IceRocket of any wrongdoing. The popups were a result of webstats4u and NOT IceRocket.
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We’ve seen this on the Wordpress support forums as well and it can be hard to track down as it seems to only do the popups at random.
I have never been a fan of external services like that anyway and this is the primary reason why!
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Jason (4 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 11:33 amI have been using http://statcounter.com for all my stats. Very detailed stats and free with a log limit.
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Ajay (39 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 11:39 amYupp .! Another vote for StatCounter .. Very nice service indeed .. I can see you have already added it..
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Shahab (7 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 12:03 pmI used StatCounter for a long time and it was really great, but then I purchased Mint and now I highly recommend it. Gives you everything you need, and then some with a great community for support and plug-ins… It’s the WordPress of stats.
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Atomic Bombshell (3 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 1:31 pmI have removed it, too. The points you mention (I can’t comment on AdSense problems because I don’t use it) are all truly reason enough to ban webstats4u from your page if you want to have it clean
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CottonIJoe (1 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 4:28 pmI’ll go with awstat or delineate instead
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Ozzie (3 comments.) — 10/5/2005 @ 9:19 pmFor my personal weblog, I use PHPstats, an italian system.
http://www.php-stats.com/
Many features, but I don’t know if there is an english translation of the UI.
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darkripper (1 comments.) — 10/6/2005 @ 11:31 amI’ve been partial to Twatch for my stats, but it’s not an external system like statcounter is.
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Crystal (4 comments.) — 10/6/2005 @ 5:29 pmAfter discovering nedstat was adding random popunders on my site I removed them. It is very annoying. I have been with this counter program for more than 6 years and I felt very disgusted.
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Guillem (1 comments.) — 10/29/2005 @ 7:48 amSorry for the Popups
Bye-bye Webstats4U.
Rob A's (Im)personal Blog — 11/25/2005 @ 2:28 pmI had been using Webstats4U to help track my site usage and was relatively happy with it, until I noticed this morning that when leaving my website I hit by a pop-under.
Now I despise ads of this nature. I find them highly annoying