Are there available statistics for ads and pageviews built into the site? What are the limitations of any such tracking?
Full statistics and more than you will probably ever need are built right into the site. Clicks, pageviews, time spent on site, which feeds are used and how often, most, e-mails, most viewed, etc. Ads can be tracked through sent e-mails, but amount of times read through e-mail (automatic e-mails like news alerts) cannot be tracked. This is because once the story is e-mailed, it leaves the server and cannot be tracked. However, the ads associated with the automatic e-mails will reside on the server, and therefore can still be tracked for statistical purposes.
