How Do You Track Your Traffic?

[Frank Murphy]

Hi all, I was wondering which would be a better tool to track website traffic? Statcounter? Analytics? Anyone has a better tool to recommend?
Thanks!

[marky586804]

Hi

I use analytic and find it very thorough.

Regards

Mark

[p2y]

Google analytics should give you all the data you need, and it's free!

[kelvin yeo]

Yup can't go wrong with Analytics. There's a lot of data hidden within it. Suggest you spend an afternoon just clicking around one of your reports. You'll be surprised what you can get and use to tweak your site and traffic.

[igorhelpsyousucceed]

I am using google analytics aswell.
The only bad thing about it seems to be
the fact that you cannot access the "live" stats.
you will have to wait 24 hours to get data..

Igor

[spearce000]

I have Google Analytics on all my websites and find it very comprehensive.

[Easy Cash]

I use Statcounter and Google Analytics.

Statcounter is great for seeing things fast - Analytics takes sometime to find the data you want.

[amits97]

Analytics here.

[ken_p]

Originally Posted by p2y

Google analytics should give you all the data you need, and it's free!

I agree. I have not found any better, but then i am still starting with this, so i cannot really afford to pay yet. So anything free is always the best. For now.

[Agnel]

Google analytics is the best one to track your website traffic.

[dave147]

have not tried GA, I use statcounter and ewebcounter

[Success2020]

I use....

Google analytics
Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online.

And

StatCounter
Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats

[Mr McDonald]

statcounter.com

Free and it has every feature you need to track traffic .

[SISMediaGroup]

Well as a web development company and a professional internet marketing company we use Google Analytics on all our sites, and all our clients sites.

This free tool is very useful, it tells you everything you would ever want to know about your site and visitors. It tells you were your direct traffic is coming from, keywords being used for your sites, bounce times, how long people stay on your site, gives you resolutions, country information and alot more.

This is a great software for marketing. We use it when we do monthly reports for all clients and would recommend this to anyone.

[Zoheb M]

Analytics here...

If you want to see the live stats, just open the date-range panel and select todays date. It generally will show up in your report only the next day, so this is just a faster way to see it.

[tommygadget]

I use Google Analytics also. However, there is a free service that is in realtime and I like it. Here's the link: eWebCounter - Real-time Web Statistics, Hit Counters and Analytics I think you'll like it. Let me know.

TomG.

[rstmarketing]

I prefer Statcounter

[Devon Brown]

Analytics is fantastic.. like what everyone else has said. But I also use my host's counter, which is Awstats. That dives a little more into detail which is what I need for some conversions that I use.

[CalvinB]

Google Analytics works well for me.

Cheers,

Calvin

[Macagba7]

Google Analytics here

[Ideefixe]

Originally Posted by Lady NaNa

Hi all, I was wondering which would be a better tool to track website traffic? Statcounter? Analytics? Anyone has a better tool to recommend?
Thanks!

Yeah Google Analytics is a must, but it is nice to have something to compare those stats to. If you guys like statcounter, you'll love mint. Stat counter is "free" but you get limited tracking. Running at just $30, Mint is BY FAR the best bang for your buck stats and tacking program out there. Best of all it's light weight and works beautifully with wordpress (and we all know wordpress is stugleing with a decent stat program/plugin). I have multiple copies of Mint plus all the peppers and plugins, for clients, so I would be happy to set you up (for less than $30) if you wanted.

chow..

[Ideefixe]

Originally Posted by Renegade Success

But I also use my host's counter, which is Awstats. That dives a little more into detail which is what I need for some conversions that I use.

right on about AWstats

so to recap, to get an all out tacking solution especially for self hosted wordpress sites/blogs is:

1.) Google Analytics (free)
2.) Mint ($30 one time fee)
3.) Awstats (free)

[robdraw]

I use tracewatch (.com) free but you'll need some experience in setting it up on a server but it provides an amazing amount of info.

[Michael Hilton]

Yeah I also found statcounter to be very efficient.

[entry]

Can you outline the main features of Analytics (besides just 'showing what source the traffic visitor came from-which page he came from to your site)

What are the main features with google analatics? and what are the clever tracking methods it can do?

[acapgroup]

visistat works great for me i think its better than google analytics worth a few extra bucks!

[Paul Reid]

To track analytics, just use Google Analytics.

To track ads and paid traffic, use the pixel tracking options available inside something like an Adwords account. For any other type of paid traffic use something like Adtrackz or Hypertracker. Both good services.

[TSDMike]

I am not a fan of Google Analytics.

GA does offer very thorough features and analysis for viewing different performance aspects of your site.

I have a problem with GA, though. GA seems to be grossly under-reporting my numbers. I am not sure why this is, but I've had days where it shows a total of seven unique visits for the whole day - my main site (unpaidentertainer.com) has an Alexa rank of 185,000 in the US and 1.4m overall (I know this is nothing to get excited about - but it reflects a site that gets more than seven visits a day). I suspect that GA has a high sensitivity to bots and such and excludes that traffic - but I know for a fact that the numbers are simply not accurate.

I use a combination of AWStats (which came with my hosting package through HostGator), and two Wordpress plugins: CYStats and MYStats. Between the three of them, I get enough information to see where traffic is coming from, how they interact with the site, which pages and posts are most popular - basically every thing you'd want to know.

[powertoberecon]

Hi

Everyone use Google Analytics or statcounter, but can someone
tell me the difference between the two.

For me is statcounter and awstat does the works.

Patrick

[tUNU52]

To track website traffic I am using google analytics and awstat aswell.

[Aaron Sustar]

So far no-one has mentioned this, but since April 28th (if I remember correctly) every AdSense publisher has the option of integrating his AdSense account with Google Analytics, which makes for a really useful tool.

I am not in the AdSense business, but I think that for the AdSense publishers out there the choice is pretty clear. However, I use Analytics on my projects as well since it tells me everything I need to know - and if I need to know something much more specific about my traffic, I simply create (code) my own specific tracker.

[profitgenie]

I use both statcounter and GA, Ga is a little more user friendly and easier to read bounce rates in my opinion. I think bounce rates for your traffic is important as if people are coming to your site and then taking off without having a good look round i dont class it as fantastic traffic.

PG

[powerspike]

I ended up writing my own (in sig), I got sick of logging in and out of accounts all day. Google analytics will cover most of your needs, but the update speed is bad

[zeurois]

Since so many said GA is the best, let me share my experiences.

Although it's free and seems to have lots of reports and to be very big and complex ... it sucks. It's just big, that's it.

I ran a few php test on several websites of mine (& other people) and GA seemed to report about 30-50% of the real traffic. While the requests & all the IPs and user agents (etc etc) were there, GA wasn't showing it.

Conclusion: GA is good as long as you don't really care about exact numbers (it'll give you a good idea of what's happening out there) but if you do, then get a paid tracking system.

Cheers

[Traffic-Bug]

To track traffic you can use tools like chartbeat dot com and to view live visitors use zopim dot com.

[digabot]

Why on earth would you want your analytics and web stats on someone else's server?

If people realized how many of these service related companies are also active affiliates, you would craap yourself.

[bretski]

I usually just check my Awstats and Webalizer stats in Cpanel for my hosting account. I had set up GA for a couple of my sites but since I am in and out of Cpanel pretty often throughout the week it's just easier for me to check everything there instead of having to check them through Google. Call me lazy...I can compare month to month stats and see if what I'm doing is working for a particular site...search strings..pages that visitors are hitting on...site referals and 404 errors to tell me if something is out of whack.

[Chirag]

Google Analytics is really thorough and detailed!

[JordanFrancis]

I am testing getclicky.com right now. The "spy" mode is addictive...

[SEOsoftware]

Google Analytics+ Awstats bunch it's enough though

[asifkhalil]

Google Analytics ok you can use but my experience is good for addfreestats.com and i am using now for all my sites.

Google Analytics not giving real time reports , but addfreestats give real time reports so you can get more good tracks in real time.

You can track Exit link and Google Adsense clicks from AddFreeStats.com also where your visitors go after they leave your website. What's the link they clicked for leaving your website etc..


So i think these informations are best and good for your site tracking in real time.

[th1216]

I use google analytics too .... Yeah, I agree that once you spend some time studying it, you will find something useful to tweak your campaing..

[Geopentagon]

Dear Lay,
I use the 10 tools to monitor my traffic.Here are the following tools
Best Ways To Track Your Website Daily Traffic
Woopra
Google Analytics
VisiStat
Crazyegg
Yahoo! Web Analytics
Clicky
. StatCounter
SiteMeter
W3counter
Mint

[alex900]

Hi,
For tracking purposes I use kl.am
They track clicks and their geografical location in real time

[k8spy8]

Google is providing all kind of stuffs required to do internet marketing and I use analytics from Google to do this. Really it work very good to me though many others are there providing the same result in a different view.

[Geopentagon]

Dear Lay,
I use the 10 tools to monitor my traffic.Here are the following tools
Best Ways To Track Your Website Daily Traffic
Woopra
Google Analytics
VisiStat
Crazyegg
Yahoo! Web Analytics
Clicky
. StatCounter
SiteMeter
W3counter
Mint

[martin2]

awstats from cpanel, wassup plugin for wordpress blogs.

[Dan Grossman]

Glad to see some people mention some of my sites already.

W3Counter - Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats and Web Counter

Conversion Tracking for Ecommerce and Affiliate Marketing :: w3roi

Tracking is my passion

[martin2]

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

Glad to see some people mention some of my sites already.

Thanks, great reference .

[David Snape]

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

Glad to see some people mention some of my sites already.

W3Counter - Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats and Web Counter

Conversion Tracking for Ecommerce and Affiliate Marketing :: w3roi

Tracking is my passion

Dan, no offense intended but how do I know the information in my account will not be looked at by you or anyone on your team?

I want my conversion tracking to be private?

Thanks in advance..