Question for you that own your own website!

Hi Cory and Tracy,

This is what I use to track my stats.  Its free and it has great reports!!  It even gives you tools to see where your traffic is coming from (which search engine, what keywords they used, what pages they viewed, how long they were there, etc).   www.statcounter.com

Hi Cory and Tracy, one of the best website analytics program out there is Google Analytics.  We use them for our blog sites.  You can find it here:  http://www.google.com/analytics/

You can use this for each of your websites if you have multiple.  Enjoy!

I get stattracker free with my yahoo! hosting.  I get between 20-40K hits a month and I like to see where they are entering so I can determine what is working.

Good luck! 

Hi,

I use google analytics. I've tried a few others and this one has seemed the most comprehensive. I'm also the only one in my office with a website. The more that I work it the more traffic I get. It's not a ton yet, but I do get some folks calling because they saw me online somewhere. I try to diversify where I have info posted and then can track the different avenues. The more I blog the more hits I get to my site.

peace, 

Another vote got Google Analytics. 

I was using another system, and it was showing thousands of monthly visitors.  I actually was only getting 150 or so unique visitors.  Now I know where they come from, and what they look at.   

We get a tracking and analytics as part of our ihouse website package. We get about 3000 visitors per month. www.BestFlagstaffHomes.com

Cory--On my static webpage I get about 1000 unique visitors a month and probably 3 times the hits. (Hits are page views and one visitor can have many page views.) My blogs are about 4-5 times that depending on the information that I have loaded that month...More hits on the blogs even though they are newer. Add a stat counter to your pages...they are free and you can use visible or invisible. www.statcounter.com

 

Cory and Tracy

 We get tracking as part of our package. But you want more than that. I would Call Shane Tucker. He can expain a system that is amazing which I am using call him at 1 972 668-5090

 

Call me if you want also. Unique visitors are what counts and clients leaving their information.

 

Dan Seider

Google Analytics is good, and free. I like WebTrends better, but it costs.

Visitors are individual users coming to your site.

Page views are pages viewed, usually several pages per visitor.

Hits are files called on the server. Often multiple files per page.

So you might see something like 400 visitors, 2000 page views, 6000 hits all for the same period.

 

It is important, as Laura mentioned, to understand the difference between "hits" vs. "unique visitors". Rene Burrows mentioned that she was getting "20-40K hits a month". However, her Home page has 37 graphics (I just checked it in my HTML editor) as well as the 1 html page to deliver up each time a visitor shows up - for at least 38 "hits" to the web server that is hosting her web site. At 20,000 hits, that would equate to 536 unique visitors (20,000 divided by 38) who stopped by to load her page in their web browser. Divided by 4 = 131 visitors per week divided by 7 days = 18 per day. So she is getting anywhere between 18 to 36 visitors a day. Certainly a terrific average number of unique visitors! So tracking unique visitors offers a better "snapshot" of how a web site is performing. That would equate to sending out 18 to 36 "snail mail" postcards a day or knocking on 18 to 36 doors a day, if you were prospecting in the physical world. And the nice thing is that Rene never had to leave her chair. Ha!

Hi Cory & Tracy - I've heard/read alot of explanations about hits/visitors/pages, but the comments to your post are very clear and concise.  Win's comments above are priceless.   Thanks for asking about the differences...it's definitely something that alot of us having been thinking about.  Good luck!

Cory & Tracy...I have had an Ihouse site for years and it tracks no only visitors but also who has visited your site.  I am averaging 50,000 visitors per month and Active Rain is responsbile for a big leap in my number of visitors.

I am getting about 6000 unique visitors a week on one site.