What tool to use to check your traffic?

14 years ago

From what I know Google Analytics is used as proof when flipping sites so you can stick with that.

I also use Web Analytics in Real Time | Clicky for some of my sites. You try it out for free.

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Anthony W

13 years ago

Originally Posted by D Baker

From what I know Google Analytics is used as proof when flipping sites so you can stick with that.

I also use Web Analytics in Real Time | Clicky for some of my sites. You try it out for free.

Clicky's awesome. I love it. The first month is awesome, but then you gotta decide whether or not to purchase it to continue some of the more advanced features

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jazbo

14 years ago

None of them are 100% accurate. They do give you trends though.

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Budas286

14 years ago

Hi, i think Google analytics is the best! Cpanel stats arent very accurate,
Try maybe some alternatives like yahoo analytics or getclicky.com

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indchris

14 years ago

Google analytics is one option, but an easier one is to use your log files. Many free softwares can extract the data from your log files and give you a very accurate picture

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iklanbaris

14 years ago

hi...You may try histats.com ..or sitemeter...I use it..And it's good i think..

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connorbringas 14 years ago

I agree with others, nothing gives you 100 percent accuracy..I have noticed some flaws
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socialbookmark

14 years ago

I think combination of Google analytics and Awstats is a good choice for more accurate information about the traffic of your website.

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Mega B

14 years ago

Awstats is the main one i use,in my mind its the most accurate.

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- jtpada 14 years ago
  
  I use statscounter and am very satisfied with it. It´s a free plugin.
  
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seoextent

14 years ago

I am using Google Analytic for my traffic

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webboss

14 years ago

i m also using google analytics there are also some other choices like compete and web stat

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davngab 14 years ago

thanks for all your replies guys!

I'll try a few of the ones recommended and compare
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mcampbell075

14 years ago

Use Google Analytics for more information! Since you can analyze where your traffic came from, how long your visitors stayed on your website and many more.
And you can also use statcounter for backup because it is good in telling you the on going traffic for today unlike Google Analytics it just provide the record of the traffic yesterday.

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mantukins

14 years ago

Google analytics is 1 selection, but an simpler one particular would be to use your log information. Several free of charge softwares can extract the information out of your log recordsdata and provide you with a extremely precise image

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rypher21

14 years ago

i use combination of google analytics and statcounter

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hitek

14 years ago

Yes, it is possible to know about traffic through CP of blog. But is there any external tool to check traffic of any site?

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marcushussey 14 years ago

In my opinion google analytics will give you detail traffic where it comes from. It is the best tool for traffic estimation. There are many tools available on the web for traffic estimation like ewebcountrer , statcounter but the best thing about GA is that you can totally rely on this as its form Google and totally free.
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Freelancer's Mind

14 years ago

I noticed the same, there are big differences between cpanel and google analytics.

What do you guys think of wordpress site stats?

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TristanPerry

14 years ago

AwStats (along with the other cPanel stats packages, Analog and Webalizer) draw directly from the Apache access logs hence they are 100% accurate.

However they therefore include *everything*, including bots, script-based page hits, etc.

However Analytics runs via Javascript and as a result, thing like bots and scripts won't be included in the results (since they wouldn't execute the JS, or at least not to the point where a visitor hit would be recorded)

But yet, I use AwStats and Analytics since they are both accurate, but both provide a slightly different picture of things.

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FatKidLovesCake

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TristanPerry

AwStats (along with the other cPanel stats packages, Analog and Webalizer) draw directly from the Apache access logs hence they are 100% accurate.

However they therefore include *everything*, including bots, script-based page hits, etc.

However Analytics runs via Javascript and as a result, thing like bots and scripts won't be included in the results (since they wouldn't execute the JS, or at least not to the point where a visitor hit would be recorded)

But yet, I use AwStats and Analytics since they are both accurate, but both provide a slightly different picture of things.

exactly what I was thinking, use both obviously. AW stats is nice in my honest opinion.

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NewbieWarrior 13 years ago

How do you set up AWStats?

Is there a simple way to do it?

I just had a look at the set up instructions and it seems to demand a high level of programming expertise. Thanks.

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- orvn 13 years ago
  
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hireava

14 years ago

google analytics is not really accurate but better than the others... in my opinion though...

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dipenb

14 years ago

Google Webmaster is best. Google Analytics also gives good insights of ranking. In terms of softwares Rank Tracker of Link Assistant, SEO Elite, Market samurai are good.

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xiaoayuan

14 years ago

I use Google analytics and Awstats to check my traffic. But the data out of them are huge different. Once a time, I check a relatively new website of mine, Cpanel shows there are 874 hits and 175 unique visitors while Google shows 0 hit and 0 visitor. (the data is based on one week).

I don’t know exactly which one is more accurate? But I have to say I’d like to believe Cpanel is more accurate for the Alex traffic ranking increases in that week.

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miranon

14 years ago

What is the fastest one? I don't want to increase load speed of my pages too much.

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princekay4

13 years ago

I use SEO Quake to check backlinks in google, yahoo and msn, alexa rank, internal links and keyword density. All on a toolbar at the top of the page.

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FamilyFrugal

13 years ago

statcounter here.

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kishornayak

13 years ago

Google analytics is trusted for flipping sites. The traffic analysis is better compared to others.

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Spency

13 years ago

Google Analytics is the one we use on all sites.

I do not think any are totally 100% accurate, but I think GA is the closest or certainly most useful for us.

We really like the interface and the fact they keep rolling out new features.

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monixx

13 years ago

I use google analytics and sitemeter

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michel147 13 years ago

Originally Posted by monixx

I use google analytics and sitemeter

same to you.
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wordpresstrainingpackage

13 years ago

One thing is that no web traffic measuring tool is 100% accurate. However, Google Analytics is common because of the authority status of Google. In addition, with Google Analytics, you can filter the traffic to exclude certain regions and even your own visits to your site. Another good thing about Google analytics is that it can recognise traffic from bots and exclude them in your web traffic statistics. This is a feature that most other traffic tools do not have. A traffic report from Google Analytics is more likely to be accepted for site flipping.

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markowe 13 years ago

Originally Posted by wordpresstrainingpackage

One thing is that no web traffic measuring tool is 100% accurate.

Not STRICTLY true - for low traffic sites (most of mine ) I like to use a server-side PHP-based stats package called Tracewatch (Google it) - it's free, it's REALLY awesome and you see EVERY visitor, it's 100% accurate by definition, since the code is triggered as the page is generated on the server side. This DOES have an overhead - extra database hits and CPU time etc. but it's worth it for a small site.

It's great for new sites because you can watch each and every visitor at the beginning to see what's happening. I have spotted many an interesting activity that way. I get to see the instant Google fetches my sitemap, does the first crawl, etc. If traffic builds high then you can move out to GA (i.e. client-side, which doesn't thrash your hosting) because by then you are only interested in overall trends anyway.
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achong

13 years ago

sitemeter is my choice. simple and free. Google analytic is good too

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hearme

13 years ago

i think the Google anylatics with combination of google webmaster tools is the best.

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jaqes 13 years ago

I used to check my site traffic in my site panel but, now i have registered in Google analytic because Google analytic always provide accurate data.
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alfredthomson

13 years ago

i use Google Adwords to check the traffic. its very accurate and perfect. it can tell you traffic of any date, or month.

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mayurisama 13 years ago

i use whosamong.us
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superSEO2011

13 years ago

Google analytics is the best in my opinion. I would go by that as people use that when flipping site on Flippa.com! Good Luck!

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andy.bogard08

13 years ago

The process of my daily work of SEO, most of the time I used the usual SEO tools online to do keyword searches, which is 90 percent of the work for me. E ', however, times when I need to be useful, and preferably a free SEO tool that can provide feedback on the success or failure of my SEO efforts.

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Look4VGames

13 years ago

google analytics.

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CikaPero

13 years ago

You can try Traffic Estimator Tool from AdWords web interface.

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nsdoi

13 years ago

Hello....

Google analytic and stat counter i use these two tools to analyze a website traffic.

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webgain

13 years ago

I prefer Google Analytics for traffic checking. i Use this and its easy and real tool who shows all real traffic and sources too.

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webtrading

13 years ago

There are 3 good ones I use with AWstats the best one by a mile and better vs Analytics and Webalizer. AWstats is also easier and quicker to do stats analysis (especially by using the nice charts) vs Analytics which is more time consuming, tedious and stores a relatively short history vs AWstats which goes back years.