At the beginning of each month, many EntreCard users post links to the people who have dropped the most EntreCards on them during the previous month. Often, this list is of the top ten people listed on the EntreCard statistics page. However, there are a bunch of issues with this. First, if you are a popular site, you may have more than ten people tied for first place and you may be overlooking some important people.

Also, this focuses on whether a person drops a card on you or not. It used to be that you received a credit for each card dropped on you, so this was more important. Now, about the only remaining effect is that the number of cards dropped on you is reflected in your EntreCard popularity, which some people use in deciding whether or not to advertise on your site.

It does not focus on whether or not the visitor was a ‘ghost dropper’, someone that manages to beat the system by dropping on you without visiting your site. Likewise, if the person did visit your site, it only tracks whether or not they dropped a card, and not whether they read what you wrote, how long they stayed on your site, how many other pages they visited, or so on.

To address this, back in February, I set up my EC Analytics page. If you are using Google Analytics, you can authorize this page to read your Google Analytics data, and provide list of people who have visited your site from their EntreCard Drop box. It is sorted, in descending order, by the number of pages that Google recorded them visiting. Some people may visit many pages on a single visit. Others might visit a couple times a day. In either case, the most they can drop is one card. On the other side of things, some people might visit just long enough to find the EntreCard widget, drop on it, and move on before Google Analytics even gets a chance to record the visit.

With all of this in mind, I’m presenting a different sort of EntreCard top visitors page today. The following people visited the most pages on my site after arriving from their EntreCard Inbox. Besides the number of pages they’ve visited, I’ve also noted the number of EntreCard drops they did.

Most of them update their blogs fairly regularly, with the exception of Fatherlyyours.com which hasn’t been updated since last December.

With that, here is the list:

Ruth's Creations 15 drops, 44 page views
The Sewing Mom 30 Drops, 32 Page views
Online Social Networking 28 drops, 31 page views
Fatherlyours.com27 drops, 30 page views
Moms Lifestyle26 drops, 30 page views
Beyond Left Field26 drops, 29 page views
Parent Times 30 drops, 27 page views
the crazy suburban mom 29 drops, 27 page views
Small Town Mommy26 drops, 27 page views
Fledgling Blogger27 drops, 26 Page views.

Thanks to everyone who visits and reads my site.