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Tracking traffic statistics on your blog or website is vital to knowing how your blog or website is performing on the internet. Here’s how you can track all this information for free.
Why is tracking blog or website traffic statistics so important?
You will get a much clearer picture of your blogging efforts when you know exact performance figures such as the total number of daily unique visitors to your blog, repeat visitors, page views, which countries your visitors are coming from, which search engine keywords did your visitors find your site with and many more.
These traffic statistics not only allow you to see how your blog is performing on a day to day basis, it also helps you know how to tweek your blog so that you can increase your traffic even more.
How can I start tracking my blog or website traffic for free?
I use 2 main ways to track traffic to my blog and website.
1) StatCounter - A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!
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This is a sample of how StatCounter tracks my traffic:
Get a free StatCounter blog or website statistics tracking account here.
2) Wordpress Traffic Statistics Plugin
Wordpress provides a simple plugin that integrates a blog traffic statistics tracking service into your Wordpress blog dashboard. You can see simple statistics like your total number of daily visitors, your most read articles, your most popular links and many more.
I use this so that i can cross reference the statistics with StatCounter, just in case either one has some discrepancies.
Click here to download the Wordpress Stats plugin if you are using a self hosted Wordpress blog like mine.
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7 Comments
Hey Dennis how does Stat Counter fair against Google Analytics because Analytics is pretty thorough.. and I use Analytics all the time and I was wondering from your perspective which one you thought was better..
- Alexander Day
Hi Alexander,
Google Analytics is a great tool for analysing traffic on your website. However, i personally feel that it is a more advanced traffic statistics tool for beginners to get used to quickly and easily.
Compared with Google Analytics, Statcounter is really very easy to use and the stats are pretty straightforward. That’s why i prefer to use it.
However, in terms of advanced functionalities, Google Analytics is really the best. You can read this forum thread on Statcounter’s forums where users had a good discussion about Google Analytics VS StatCounter, http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27572
Enjoy!
Dennis Bay
Thanks for the tip. Hope you continue feeding us readers with quality info~!
No problem SEO Tips! Good stuff will keep coming, so keep coming back to my blog
Dennis Bay
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Hi Hari,
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I quite like Piwik for stats