TweetYou can learn more and examine what is happening with your input by using the following services to keep stats/logs/analytics of your web presence. You are able to evaluate what may be losing you visitors and also how to direct new visitors to wherever on your web presence if you feel it may need it.
Website Stats
- awstats
- google analytics
- statcounter.com
- your forum, registered users etc
- cms stats such as WordPress Stats
- RSS/Email Subscribers
Service/Tool Stats
- Youtube Insights
- Facebook Insights
- Photobucket Album Views
- Myspace/Soundcloud/Last.FM plays/listeners
- Torrents
- Blip.fm
- etc
Awstats
This is a free graphically based web site statistic tool. It logs the actions on the server it is installed, which should usually be within every control panel on your hosting. It not only does websites, it also can cover FTP, Mail and other things which transfer data online. By going to your ‘logs’ part of your control panel you can access Awstats and any domain within your hosting and see the stats for yourself.
The following stats are from a website which has only been on line for one month while being tested, so the only results are from movements by a web master.
It is one of the most powerful free stat tools to utilize on your hosting, you get a summary, monthly visitor history.
The countries that the visitors are located in as the visit your website.
The busiest days of the week are shown as are the hours within the days.
How long each visit has lasted, obviously the longer a visit lasts the better this will result in your web presence.
The second most important part to your analytics is that of how they found you. Awstats provides backlinks to the site on which a visitor connected from. This may mean you have backlinks to your site there which where put by yourself or some other person.
As well as the search engine results, you will see exact organic visitors, what they searched to find your link and the amount of times someone uses the specific key words or phrases. This is especially good to use if you are to keep on top of SEO keywords/phrases and to evaluate.
For the month that you are in, you are also provided with a day by day look at your websites visits. By changing the month in the form at the top you can change this and any other view to see that specific month and evaluate with other months in mind.
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