An iBrattleboro update: for those interested in these sorts of things, we've gone ahead and added a Sitemeter icon to the very bottom of the page.
If you click on it, you can go take a look at stats for this site. The tracking began at about 4:30pm on Sunday, May 8, 2005 when this site's built-in stats already showed 1,341,500 page views to date.
We want to test Sitemeter out as a way of having some independent statistics.
How does it work? Basically, there is a tiny bit of code we put in the footer of each page and the Sitemeter site takes it from there. It sets a cookie that keeps track of things like how long we view each page.
It's free (you can use it on you site if you have one), because they show ads on the pages you view to see the stats. Feel free to follow along with this experiment to see how it goes.