Rodent Regatta

Soon, I’ve got to identify the best way to see who is visiting this site and who is linking to this site. I’ve got meters set up for traffic and they give abbreviated summaries. I’ve got a host account that provides some traffic information.

Every now and then, somebody links to this site and I see a reference to that in an RSS feed from Technorati. Other times, it goes unrecognized. This morning I noticed linkage from (I think) the Mandarin Designs site. A visit there did not tell me where or how a link from that site to mine had been set up. Perhaps, I need to better understand what Technorati is doing or can do for me.

I’ve downloaded Refer 2.1, and I’m pretty sure my host account provides everything I need to make it work. However, I don’t use MySQL for my Movable Type database. So, that’s out.

Anyhow, I want to be able to routinely answer the following two or eight questions:

• Who visited today? This week? This month? This year?
• Who linked today? This week? This month? This year?

Is that really all that hard to get?