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Tracking Web Stats - How do you do it?

by dalvia
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Hi,

I have a few host accounts. some with godaddy (they have traffic facts) which is really helpful to see whose promoting your products and sending you traffic,

BUT

How do you track stats with hostgator with addon domains? Is there a software that can be plugged in?

Thanks for your imput,
D
#stats #tracking #web
  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    There are many 3rd party trackers you can use just by pasting a bit of code into each page of the site. If it's templated, or uses a CMS like WordPress, you just put the code in the footer or sidebar so that it appears in every page.

    I run a free real-time web stats service: W3Counter.

    Google Analytics is the popular one, but it's not real-time, so you have to wait a few hours to a few days to see the recent traffic coming to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    Are you using google analytics? That's simple and free and gives you a lot of details.

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    Damn, Dan beat me to it!
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  • Profile picture of the author dalvia
    Thanks guys for your imput. I have heard of google analytics but I will get onto it today and give it a whirl,

    Thanks again,
    D
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  • Profile picture of the author oortcloud
    Statcounter.com !

    I have been using statcounter for a year now to track all of
    my sites, gives you a dashboard on one page of all your
    domains and then you can drill down from there. You just
    drop some code on each page, oh and its free.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Monty
      Originally Posted by oortcloud View Post

      Statcounter.com !

      I have been using statcounter for a year now to track all of
      my sites, gives you a dashboard on one page of all your
      domains and then you can drill down from there. You just
      drop some code on each page, oh and its free.
      I agree. Statcounter is my favorite resource.
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  • Profile picture of the author Heman Patel
    Google analytic and statcounter work great!!!

    Plus they are free!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author pingshepherd
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      Google analytic works great
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    StatCounter's free service is only for very low traffic sites, though. Unless you pay for more, they only report on the last 500 page views of your site. For a site with even just a hundred or two visits a day, that's less than a day's traffic. That makes it impossible to view any trends in referrers, search keywords, etc. as your reports are on such a small period of time.
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    • Profile picture of the author oortcloud
      I should have clarified, I use google analytics for more indepth analysis at the end of the week but for day to day glance I use statcounter to monitor and spot any unusual trends.
      Once I started accumulating more than a few domains, it became a pain to try to dig through seperate reports for each site.

      So I think a dashboard and detailed reports are both a good idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author iMarketer
    Woopra is cool too... gives real time stats, plus a desktop java client.
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  • Profile picture of the author Neil S
    I use Google Analytics primarily but Statcounter to track sales from a merchant webpage.
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