I rarely check my stats.
I don’t need to.
I don’t blog for the traffic
(I blogged for a year once
with less than 10 readers a day)
but more importantly,
there is a quicker alternative.
I can pretty much gauge
the popularity of my blogs by
how much comment and syndicate spam I receive.
And since I look through my comments regularly
(try to get to them once a day),
I can cut the extra step of checking my stats.
Look at your own system.
Do you have an indicator that can do double duty?
(For established stores, for example,
traffic is a great indicator of revenue)
Then save time and only regularly look at the one.