How to Verify Your True Performance with Google Analytics, Not Site Kit

✅ I trusted Site Kit, so why do I feel so alone?

One month after starting my blog.
Writing, editing, and rewriting every day.
Did the articles I poured my heart into reach anyone?
Every day, I checked Site Kit…
“0 Visitors”
“1 Click”
“0 Seconds Dwell Time”

Every time I saw those numbers,
“Am I just talking into thin air…?”
That thought made my heart heavy.

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✅ But then, everything changed after I opened Analytics

By chance, I opened Google Analytics on my PC.
Checking the ‘Pages and screens’ tab,
to my surprise, several articles had 20-30 views,
and some even had an average dwell time of over 1 minute.

“What… I was doing well all along?”
That’s when I realized.
Site Kit was just a summary; the real story was elsewhere.

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✅ Site Kit vs. Analytics, What’s the Difference?

Comparison Item	Site Kit	Analytics (GA4)
Accuracy	Summarized traffic info	Can analyze entire user behavior flow
Real-time	Provides only simple metrics	Tracks sessions/events/dwell time, etc.
Detailed Data	Limited	Can check dwell time and click-through rates per page

Site Kit is good for a quick glance.
But for performance analysis, always use GA4.
In particular, the ‘Pages and screens’ tab is an absolute must-see!

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✅ 1 Minute Dwell Time? That’s Not Just Simple Traffic.

What moved me most when I opened GA
was the ‘dwell time.’
Even with 20 views,
seeing an article with a 1 minute 30 second dwell time made me think:

“Ah, this is a trace of someone slowly reading and feeling my words.”

The moment I saw that, I was no longer alone,
and I felt a renewed hope and joy to write again.
‘Someone was carefully reading my words!’

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✅ 3 Analytics Tips Every Beginner Blogger Must Know

1. View the ‘Pages and screens’ tab
   • You can check real traffic per page!
2. Dwell Time > Views
   • More important than views is “how long did they stay?”
3. Check on desktop (essential)
   • Mobile Analytics is summarized, so numbers may appear lower

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✅ Concluding – A Word to Myself, Who Was Doing Well All Along

All this time, I
felt like I was talking to myself,
but in fact, there were people quietly listening.

Numbers don’t lie,
but sometimes, the numbers we see can be false comfort or unnecessary anxiety.

Today, I want to tell myself this:

“Well done, Seojun.
Your direction was already right, and results will follow soon.
Just a little more effort!”

🌿 Even if life deceives you

Life sometimes
deceives those who have lived more diligently than anyone else.
Wounds return to those who gave love,
and kind-hearted people fall into loneliness.

At one point, I thought it was because I was lacking something.
I thought I had to do better, be stronger,
and I only looked for the cause of all mistakes within myself.

But one day, a thought suddenly struck me.

“What if life wasn’t deceiving me,
but I was deceiving myself?
Perhaps every situation was for my benefit.
Was I so caught up in my thoughts that I missed it?
Sometimes, the truth is quietly hidden.”

Since that day,
instead of practicing not being deceived,
I decided to practice cultivating a heart that is okay with being hurt.

Even moments that felt like deception
were actually pieces of love offered by the universe,
and those times still awaken me from ignorance.

🍃 So today, I say this:
Even if life deceives you,
do not be sad or angry.
The universe has never deceived you,
and you have always been sincere.
Everyone loves you.

Sincerity… will surely be revealed someday.
Quietly, very deeply,
like spring rain.