Congrats to my buddy Inman for his awesome little web stats app making it to three years old, in the face of some really heavy competition from some company called “Google,” who’s product comes in a the low low price of “free,” whereas Mint costs something. I think this is a real win for design. Analytics these days has a very decent design, but Mint is really filling that niche for people who truly care about design and aesthetics. Here’s to (at least) three more years! Visit site »
Maura shows you how easy it is to use Django’s built-in database introspection tool on your Mint database, giving you a view of your stats in the Django admin interface and full access to your Mint data via the Django database API. Would be great if you ever wanted to display some Mint data publicly on your site and/or want to mash up the data with some other sources. Visit site »
Jason Lynes is perturbed at Inman’s Mint 2 marketing machine. Which is, of course, amusing, since a bunch of people were perturbed about the same thing on upon Mint’s initial release. People will never believe it, I’m sure, but Shaun did the same thing anyone would do if they were releasing an app: he asked his friends to beta test it for him. There was nothing more to the agreement. Us beta testers were never promised a free anything, and were never asked to publicly rave, defend, or link to the product or its author. Some of us did so, because we like it, but certainly not because Shaun asked. Jason Lynes generally seems like a good guy and is a talented designer, but this post is nothing but a bunch of sour grapes (and, frankly, it’s not the first post of his that’s come off that way). Visit site »
I’ve seen it. It rocks. You want it. Visit site »
Well-crafted comparative review. Personally, I’m still on the Mint bandwagon, mostly because I feel like it gives me the timely information I need at a glance. Google Analytics is very good, though, especially for the low, low cost of free. Visit site »
Nice slides from Inman’s recent Summit presentation, someof which feature illustrations by Kevin Cornell. There might even be an appearance by Yours Truly if you look closely enough. :) Visit site »
Very fair take on Mint, it’s cost, and it’s value as compared to ShortStat. Visit site »
David thinks that Shaun “doesn’t deserve” money for Mint and that he is “the Microsoft of web stats.” He also (very incorrectly) claims that Urchin is free and that all of Mint’s beta testers “are a claque”. Oh how I love feeding the trolls… Visit site »
Displays the IP address of your visitors. Would love to see a “Repeat” pane in this one, but it’s a great start! More pepper, more pepper! Visit site »
More Pepper, this one from Steve Smith. It counts downloads of a particular file specified file extensions. Sweet. Visit site »
A day in, and we already have Pepper. This one tracks the language of your visitors. Cool! Visit site »
I’ve been beta testing Mint 2 since August (yes, August!), and I can say with a great deal of certainty that it will rock your fucking socks off. Go get it. Visit site »
Shaun addresses some common questions about Mint is his post, entitled “Green means go.” Visit site »