Why and how to track traffic of your website?
Traffic analysis Why you should analyze traffic of your website?
[1] You can decide what you need to change in your site. [2] You
will able to know how visitors coming on your site [3] You will
Calculate your ROI if you are advertising with any PPC sites [4]
You will be able to know Path of visitors and most preferred
path of visitors. [5] You will decide which Keywords can work
better for you and drive more targeted traffic for your site [6]
You will be able to know Percentage of visitors countrywise [7]
You will be able to know top referral links [8] You will know
pageload per visitors and Visitor to sales ratio and may improve
it by changing appropriate changes in your site.changes in
Title,Description etc.. [9] Most popular pages. [10] According
to feature of every tools you will analyse like Size of file
loaded in a day,no of Error pages etc.. How to analyse traffic?
There are various tools available for traffic analysis.various
services like Stacounter,google-analytics,webstats4u,ritecounter
etc...available for free to analyze your traffic
[1]Stacounter:-(http://www.statcounter.com/):Stacounter is one
of the most popular counter.it is invisible! its alexa traffic
rank is 122 this itself shows how popular it is.the service is
totally free if your page load per month is 3,00,000 other vise
you have to improve log size,initially its logsize is 100 and
you can upgrade your logsize.. [2]Webstats4u(
http://www.webstats4u.com/):-webstats4u is another popular
counter but it is not invisible.everyone can view your
stats.however they have added some nice features recently.
[3]Google-analitics( www.google.com/analytics/):-recently google
launched its site tracking service named google-analytics.it is
really nice service and free..i have no more experience but
people says it is really nice accept its low speed! you have to
first register your site with them using your google account.
then you have to paste a code on pages you want to alalyze.there
are certain limitation for placing codes like you have to place
the code immidiately after the metatags and before Body!.then it
will analyse your traffic. it is in Beta(Launched in Last
December) Ritecounter:- i have some experience with
ritecounter.but i sometime shows weired results.some visits
can't track. There are other lots of Site tracking services. you
can choose. Webalizer:-you can Download it
from-http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ you will be able to
analyze your log file i am Happy with Their analysis.they says
that "over 10,000 records can be processed in one second,through
webalizer Please visit their page as i shown above.you Have to
create a directory and install this program(source code).
installation Guide is written on their home page. Awstats:-Like
webalizer awstats is also a log file analyzer which you can
install for your traffic analysis, There are some unique
features are available which you will find only on Awstats. you
can Download it from here>http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ its
latest version released just on December 2005.with lots of
improved features