You use a hit counter. Mine are from Sitemeter. (http://www.sitemeter.com) Unfortunately, you have to put one on each story page, which means that I can't get statistics on my whole site all at once. But it's interesting.
When I post a story from a LJ announcement, I can actually see who is reading it -- or at least whose friendslist each hit came from. That's also how I learned that people named their custom friends groups things like "nonopod" and "nodrama" and "everyonebutyou."
My individual stories (at least the R and NC17 ones, which is almost all of them) have a code in them that's supposed to block search robots, so nearly all the searches take people to my main page rather than the story pages. My most common search, by far, is "Hermione+NC17."
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Date: 11/15/06 03:33 pm (UTC)When I post a story from a LJ announcement, I can actually see who is reading it -- or at least whose friendslist each hit came from. That's also how I learned that people named their custom friends groups things like "nonopod" and "nodrama" and "everyonebutyou."
My individual stories (at least the R and NC17 ones, which is almost all of them) have a code in them that's supposed to block search robots, so nearly all the searches take people to my main page rather than the story pages. My most common search, by far, is "Hermione+NC17."