It's called StatCounter, and it's free at statcounter.com. Free, that is, for records of the last 500 visitors to your blog. You can find out where they came from, how long they stayed, how many times they've visited, and more. Even better, you can discover the keyword search, and the search engine, that brought them to your blog. They don't have to comment on your blog for all this to happen. They just have to show up.
I find this real useful. It's also encouraging. New Rainers sometimes get discouraged at the lack of comments, and think that no one's reading their stuff. That's not the case, as StatCounter will show you.
You can visit the site and download the html snippet yourself, and put it into your Active Rain blog settings under "blog description." It's pretty easy to do, but if you would like a tutorial, say so in your comment. If there's enough interest, we'll do a step by step tutorial. If someone on AR has already done one, please feel free to link to that AR post in your comment for your fellow Rainers.
Mike in Tucson
EDIT: Notice the two spammers from Nigeria who visited my site at the bottom right of the image! LOL
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