STATS DASHBOARD: the dashboard consists of an identity box (first box) and a stats menu box (second box) to help you manage your stats reports.

• Identity Box: displays the blog (or website) being tracked by your account, plus the last time your stats report page was refreshed. BlogPatrol stats are updated in real-time, but the date/time stamp of your stats reports shows when your browser was last refreshed with information from the database.
• Stats Menu: gives you access to all your stats reports. Click on any of the hyperlinks in this menu to go to the corresponding set of reports. The stats menu is always located at the top and bottom of the stats page to help you easily navigate through your reports.

VIEW ALL STATSITICS: click on this link to display all the reports described below (in the sequence listed below), except for the Detailed Visitor Logs.

STATS TOTALS: a summary of your total statistics in a box containing four data fields.

• Total Visitors: displays the total number of unique visitors for your account.
• Total Hits: displays the total number of hits or non-unique page views for your account.
• Today's Visitors: displays the number of unique visitors for the current day.
• Today's Forecast: displays the expected number of unique visitors for the current day based on calculations of visitor activity over the last day.

WEEKLY, DAILY & HOURLY REPORTS: a set of three reports displaying unique visitor data per hour and per day for the current week. Includes Previous and Next links to scroll through archives of data.

• Daily Visitors for Week of 'Day 1' to 'Day 7': displays the number of unique visitors per day for the current week.
• Hourly Visitors for Today: the actual number of unique visitors per hour for the current day.
• Hourly Visitors by % for Week of 'Day 1' to 'Day 7': the percentage of visitors per hour as calculated from the current week.

VISITOR ACTIVITY REPORTS: two reports that display hyperlinks to the content your visitors are reading this week. Includes Previous and Next links to scroll through archives of data.

• Top 20 Pages Viewed: displays hyperlinks of the twenty most viewed (non-unique visits) pages this week.
• Last 20 Pages Viewed: displays hyperlinks of the twenty pages most recently viewed.

REFERRERS REPORTS: Are visitors referred to you by sites of people you know? These two reports provide you hyperlinks to the sites (and search engines) referring visitors to your blog for the current week. Includes Previous and Next links to scroll through archives of data.

• Top 20 Referrers: reports the twenty most popular ways that visitors have accessed your blog this week.
• Last 20 Referrers: displays the twenty most recent referrals to access your site. This report is available for the current week only.

SEARCH ENGINE DATA REPORTS: How do people find your blog? Which countries provide the most visitors to your site? These reports provide you with the keywords, search engines, and source countries of visitors who are reading your blog this week. Includes Previous and Next links to scroll through archives of data.

• Top 10 Search Engines: the ten most popular search engines used to find your blog.
• Top 20 Keywords: reports the twenty most popular keywords that visitors have used to find your blog (with search engine included in parentheses when applicable).
• Last 20 Keywords: displays the twenty most recently used keywords that visitors have used to find content on your blog (with search engine included in parentheses). This report is available for the current week only.
• Visitor Countries: a pie chart showing the countries where your visitors are located. The displayed numbers indicate the total number of visitors per country. Hover your mouse over each pie slice and you will see the percentage of visitors for that country. (You can also interact with any pie chart on BlogPatrol stats: clicking on a slice once will pull it out of the pie, or click-and-drag the pie chart to rotate it.)

VISITOR TECHNOLOGIES REPORTS: a trio of reports that tells you the technologies being used by visitors of your blog for the current week. Includes Previous and Next links to scroll through archives of data.

• Operating Systems In Use: Windows, Mac, or Linux? Displays the operating systems used by your visitors.
• Web Browsers in Use: Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera? Displays the browsers used by your visitors.
• Screen Resolutions in Use: 1024x768, 1680x1050, or 1280x800? Displays the screen resolutions used by your visitors.

DETAILED VISITOR LOGS: Who's reading your blog? This final report is rich with information about the visitors to your blog. Each alternating gold-colored or blue-colored row of data represents a single visitor. The actual pages read by each visitor are included in a none-colored row beneath each gold-colored or blue-colored row. The valuable details include:

• Previous Day and Next Day Links: Includes links to scroll through the detailed visitor logs for each day of your data. The Previous Dayand Next Day links are located along the top and bottom of this report.
• Pagination Links: The detailed visitors logs are organized in pages containing up to 50 visitors per page. The report will show you how many pages of data are available for each day. The Page links are located along the top and bottom of this report.
• Visit: BlogPatrol assigns a unique visitor identification number to each visit tracked by your BlogPatrol counter.
• Date/Time: The date of the visit and the time when the visit began.
• IP: An acronym for Internet Protocol address, IP is the Internet address of the computer used to visit your blog.
• Country: The country where the computer of each visitor is located.
• Browser: The Internet browser of the computer used to view your blog.
• OS: The operating system (OS) of the computer used to view your blog.
• Screen: The screen resolution of the computer used to view your blog.
• Color: Most visitors will have either 32-bit or 16-bit color running on their computers.
• Pages Viewed: These rows of data display valuable information about each page viewed by your visitor. The information includes: Referrer (the URL or keyword (search engine) that sent that visitor to the first page viewed), date/time that the visitor began viewing each page. When you compare the date/time between visits, you get an idea of how much time a visitor has spent on a given page.