Goodbye SA Top Sites...
Some said their stats were high, some low. At the end of the day, it was a simple solution that served its purpose. But they were just down for too long. About a week, or more, if I'm not mistaken. And a week, in the fast paced world of the Internet - is just too much.
So I'm leaving them. And what do they care. A change of ownership, a change of servers. This stuff happens all the time.
But if anyone, anyone feels the way I do - just in search of something more - it suggests a nice fat market gap for one of our homely aggregators, Amatomu or Afrigator to take up the charge.
Do it properly though. People want meaningful stats - and Amatomu is getting pretty close with its page of ajaxy wonderment.
One widget is all it takes:
[Total Visits]
[Total Pages]
[Ave. Visits/Month]
[Ave Pages/Month]
[Direct Visits]
[Referrals]
[Ranking]
[Most popular article]
Something like that. Ah. Twould be wonderful. For now - I've discovered a rather useful oversees tracker - HiStats.Com. Check it out - until the local boys give us something.
As the founder and previous owner of SA Top Sites I have to say I'm disappointed with the current status of the site. I put a lot of hard work into the site and the company I sold them to seem to have little interest in continuing the service which is sad and really makes me very upset.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad - and you guys managed to build up a large community to boot. I had the same experience with www.gAL.co.za - which has crumbled since I left a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Justin, rescue the situation lad and use Afrigator to take up the slack... It's a perfect oppportunity surely?
I feel your frustrations which is why I started up a site that uses the same software. We should be a lot more stable than SA Top Sites. The only downtime we've had in 2 years is when it's time to upgrade something and even then it's never for more than a couple of minutes. If you're interested check us out. www.zatopsites.co.za
ReplyDeleteI'll see if I can't find something capable of stat'ing more than the topsites software can currently do.