Comments on: Oh, Minty Day!

By: RUDEWORKS

RUDEWORKS — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:08:40 +0000

[…] Hace ya bastante que comprÃ© una licencia de Mint, el gestor de estadÃsticas creado por Shaun Inman (que, por cierto, ha vuelto a rediseÃ±ar). Hoy mismo se ha publicado su nueva versiÃ³n, Mint 2, trae una serie de novedades que aun no he podido comprobar (estoy a la espera de que me envÃen la renovaciÃ³n de mi licencia), pero lo que sÃ puedo comprobar es que grÃ¡ficamente ha cambiado y eso es algo que no le ha gustado demasiado a Mike Davidson. […]

By: Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm not sure who was there first, but Inman's Mint always puts me in mind of these adverts... http://www.reginaldpike.com/tpb_mintChin.html My my, clever mint ;)

By: Alan H

Alan H — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Glad you brought it up! I've been lusting on their demo for a few weeks now. http://designologue.com/mint/ ... Me LOVES how this collapses; so brilliant!

By: Chet

Chet — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s definitely his UI that sets him appart from the rest of the stat web apps. Essentially, no matter what application you use, you’re using the same underlying data – so they took it step farther and made it easy on the eyes, and easy to navigate your stats :) It’s all about the Ease… because the data is just data ;)

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the main appeal of Mint is largely its UI, as in how everything is laid out. While solutions like Google Analytics and FeedBurner StandardStats provide pretty great tracking, actually quickly sifting through them is a bit of an ordeal.

There’s also the functionality provided by certain parts of Mint, such as now linking WordPress comment names to IPs in the stats automatically, and also showing WordPress local searches on your site — the kind of specialised stats you don’t tend to get in the free solutions.

I still don’t think charging people out the arse hole for each upgrade is a good move though.

By: Grayson De Ritis

Grayson De Ritis — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mint is great and all, but there are some analytics plugins/packages/programs out available these days that are free. I’d like to try Mint again, but I’m getting essentially what I would from it, with my current analytics dealio at 30 bucks less :-)

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any chance of linking the preview through to a full size/browser screenshot, showing the top part of Mint? :D

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Does Mint better than google analytics?

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Mike, now the minty green feeling is back in my Mint v2.

By: Paul Mayne

Paul Mayne — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m upgrading now… Thanks for the mintyness Mike.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any chance of a screenshot of what the CSS does?

(Editor’s Note: Good idea. Done!)

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I really must give it a try to see what all it does. We continue to offer the no cost and the $10 version of our counter over at http://htmlfixit.com/free.php I wonder if we need a catchy name .... hmmm, we just called it counter ...

By: Ronald Heft

Ronald Heft — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful. This is exactly what I needed to get my Mint feeling Minty again. Thanks Mike!

By: BigA

BigA — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

excellent. I can’t wait to test Mint2 and I defintely want to keep that Minty Mint look.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to go through the CSS Mike.