Andrew Stevenson posted on the topic of tracking blog comments with a great subject line “Where do my Comments Go?” The post was incentive for me to report on my experience with both WebMon and Maxthon Groups in tracking my own comments. I introduced WebMon here and using Maxthon Groups here.
After two weeks I found that using Maxthon Groups is a more efficient and manageable process for tracking my comments. The reason for this is that WebMon does a complete load at time intervals I specify (which is great), but in the nature of blog pages (and I think, web pages in general) there are too many false alerts of pages being changed due to--for blog pages, for instance--a sidebar post count being updated or something other than a new comment being added to the page. Using Maxthon Groups allows me to check pages easily and provides no false alerts. To check blog pages containing my comments, all I have to do is load the Maxthon Comment Tracking Group.
So in conclusion, to track “where my comments go,” I'm locked on Maxthon Groups for now.
I would like to sing the praises of WebMon for speeding up my dbvt.com/blog site's initial page loading time. Since WebMon does a complete page load, it keeps my dlls in server memory and really speeds up initial page loads. I have WebMon set to load the dbvt.com home page every 10 minutes, since the slowness factor in loading my initial site pages is due to the DotNetNuke dlls, not .Text.