How Do You Track Your Traffic?

marky586804

15 years ago

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I use analytic and find it very thorough.

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p2y

15 years ago

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

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ken_p 15 years ago

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.
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jayveen 15 years ago

Nobody uses Tracking202 or the self-hosted version, Prosper202? Maybe I should look into analytics instead.
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kelvin yeo

15 years ago

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.

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Igor Kheifets

15 years ago

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..

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Bob Monie

15 years ago

Originally Posted by 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

Google Analytics provides more detailed stats than you will ever need. It also has the option to create your own custom tracking.

I have noticed a few people mention that Analytics isnt in real time. How real time do people really need.

Google Analytics are updated hourly. It appears that they are a day behind when you log in but this is just a defult setting.

To view you current stats, login, click "view report" on your desired domain, click on the date range to the right and select the current day.

Since I focus on local geo marketing, I always like to track what time of day my traffic is visiting my site. To do this, login, click "view report" on your desired domain, click "visitors", then "visit", then under the date range to the right, there are 4 tabs, click on the first tab with the clock.

If you are using Wordpress, another handy little tracker plugin is called StatPress. find it here, WordPress › StatPress Reloaded WordPress Plugins

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spearce000

15 years ago

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

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Easy Cash

15 years ago

I use Statcounter and Google Analytics.

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

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amits97

15 years ago

Analytics here.

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Agnel

15 years ago

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

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Success2020

15 years ago

I use....

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

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StatCounter
Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats

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Mr McDonald

15 years ago

statcounter.com

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

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LindseyInteractive

15 years ago

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.

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Zoheb M

15 years ago

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.

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tommygadget

15 years ago

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.

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rstmarketing

15 years ago

I prefer Statcounter

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Devon Brown

15 years ago

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.

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Ideefixe 15 years ago

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)
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CalvinB

15 years ago

Google Analytics works well for me.

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Calvin

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Macagba7

15 years ago

Google Analytics here

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Ideefixe

15 years ago

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?
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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..

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robdraw

15 years ago

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.

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Michael Hilton 15 years ago

Yeah I also found statcounter to be very efficient.
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- entry 15 years ago
  
  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?
  
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acapgroup

15 years ago

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

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Paul Reid

15 years ago

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.

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TSDMike 15 years ago

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.
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- powertoberecon 15 years ago
  
  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.
  
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  tUNU52 15 years ago
  
  To track website traffic I am using google analytics and awstat aswell.
  
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  Aaron Sustar 15 years ago
  
  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.
  
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profitgenie

15 years ago

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.

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powerspike

15 years ago

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

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zeurois

15 years ago

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.

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digabot

15 years ago

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.

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bretski

15 years ago

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.

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Chirag

15 years ago

Google Analytics is really thorough and detailed!

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JordanFrancis

15 years ago

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

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SEOsoftware

15 years ago

Google Analytics+ Awstats bunch it's enough though

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asifkhalil

15 years ago

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.

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th1216 15 years ago

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..
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Geopentagon

15 years ago

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

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alex900

15 years ago

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

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k8spy8

15 years ago

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.

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Geopentagon

15 years ago

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

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martin2

15 years ago

awstats from cpanel, wassup plugin for wordpress blogs.

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Dan Grossman

15 years ago

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

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martin2 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

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

Thanks, great reference .
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David Snape

15 years ago

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

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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..

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Dan Grossman

15 years ago

Originally Posted by David Snape

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..

Because I'm an honest guy, and I have better things to do.

I don't do affiliate marketing, beyond the demo site for my WP plugin. The only sites I advertise are my own.

You could ask the same of any service you use. ShoeMoney sued Google because one of their employees was stealing his AdWords ads.

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uclaboyz

15 years ago

I use Google Analytics, and also Awstats that come with my hosting.

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scottwhaley

15 years ago

I have been using analytics for years now. Its always been perfect for me.

Scott Whaley

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bertuseng

15 years ago

I love statcounter for my smaller websites. It gives you live stats of your hits and also has a lot of features, with loads of different options. ANd best of all it's free.

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kapoerchan

15 years ago

google analytics and stats from host

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Kim Roach

15 years ago

I like to use a combination of Google Analytics and GetClicky. The great thing about GetClicky is that it's all in real-time (where GA can lag for hours).

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reapr

15 years ago

analytics and market samurai (keyword tracker) shss don't tell anyone .... lol

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frelo

15 years ago

Also Google Analytics as main and awstats to scan the server log files. Analytics filters away the bots it knows about. That might be one of the reasons it reports low stats.

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Dan Grossman

15 years ago

Originally Posted by frelo

Also Google Analytics as main and awstats to scan the server log files. Analytics filters away the bots it knows about. That might be one of the reasons it reports low stats.

Analytics isn't aware of bots in the first place. Only clients that execute JavaScript run Google's tracking script, which means they couldn't track search spiders and other bots if they wanted to, since they don't run JS.

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BrentHodgson 15 years ago

Originally Posted by reapr

analytics and market samurai (keyword tracker) shss don't tell anyone .... lol

Same as me

I want to play with CrazyEgg sometime. Only so many hours in the day.
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Jem Crowne

15 years ago

I use getclicky. They are awesome and FREE! Yay.

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Meanna Blog

15 years ago

Me? Well, i'm an analytics man myself.

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katiec

15 years ago

I am a big fan of Google Analytics. It gives me all of the information I need and the price is ideal.

"If its free, it's for me!"

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jhongren

15 years ago

I am considering using crazyegg....would love to hear the users' feedbacks =)

John

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mcapo

15 years ago

I use google analytcs, it's probably the best.

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ShiroTora

15 years ago

When I get a new client I simply ask them where they saw the ad.

Some see my local ads, some see my magazine ads and some have been to my website.

Interestingly I get a lot of people who come to the website and then phone me, as well as people who see the offline ad, go to the site, and then email me for further info.

I can adjust me ads then by changing content and placement.

Ad tracking has always been all important.

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