It’s done. The Google Analytics and MonsterInsights are set up and connected. It wasn’t hard, but it felt like it. I constantly referenced how-to guides, and probably should have looked up more specifics, but my head hurt. I don’t know if there was an ordinary cause or if it was from struggling to read and understand this foreign- foreign- noun. I don’t even know what to call it. Jargon?
My website’s dashboard now has an overview of recent visitors. The results are laughably small; one user viewed one page, one time, for a total average of zero seconds. That was probably when the latest spam comment got made. I expect once I start telling people about my website that I shall obsess over these statistics. That wouldn’t be good. Maybe I should check them once a week. On Mondays.
The OptinMonster plugin claims it will help me put e-mail popups, exit intent popups, floating bars, and more. I don’t like those when I visit a website. Perhaps I might make a narrow floating bar, if I can think of something worthwhile to put on it, but I have fought too many overenthusiastic popups and wide floating bars which block me from reading the actual website to want them on mine.
It looks like my plugins are satisfactory for now. However, I rediscovered that I don’t know how to change the look of my website. What can my theme do? Do I want the website to stay monochrome? Right now, it is very James Clear. 1 I’ll think about how I want it to look.
For now, April is one of the months when writing communities experience a surge, like the event linked2 below. I can wrap up my deeper website checks in the next couple of weeks, and plan for an effective switch back to writing.