website traffic monitor or Web Counter.... Thunderstats??
I am looking for a solution for my website to act as a web counter and general monitoring tool.
I would like to know what sections of the site are visited most frequently and maybe produce a chart the users can see.
I would also like a counter to be placed on the main page, registering visitors to the site. I.e., when someone hits any page the site the counter goes up, however if they move from one page to another it does not.
What solutions are there for web counting and traffic monitoring. I understand that the Thunderstats thing Majtin was doing is now not open the public.
I have seen Google Analytics but I'm not sure how I can integrate this with my site other than getting external reports. I'm also a bit perturbed to let Google at my site.
PS: MY server is PhP enabled.
I would like to know what sections of the site are visited most frequently and maybe produce a chart the users can see.
I would also like a counter to be placed on the main page, registering visitors to the site. I.e., when someone hits any page the site the counter goes up, however if they move from one page to another it does not.
What solutions are there for web counting and traffic monitoring. I understand that the Thunderstats thing Majtin was doing is now not open the public.
I have seen Google Analytics but I'm not sure how I can integrate this with my site other than getting external reports. I'm also a bit perturbed to let Google at my site.
PS: MY server is PhP enabled.
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They give you a configurable visitor counter to put on your pages. Plus you can view all sorts of visitor stats on their site.
Visitor statistics will always be provided externally - Google analytics is good and free - easy to add to the website (I used a simple search&replace tool to do this on the html pages). Your hosting provider should also provide some details, but I am afraid, you would need to write your own tool to extract the data from the log files on your own website to have an interactive report on your site.
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They only let accounts with URLs such as: www.mywebpage.com or mysite.co.uk but not www.ourserver.ac.uk/pages/AndrewsSite/
Will stat counter allow this?
Yes
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also google analytics is fairly crap imo
What's bad about it? (aside from it being [evil]Google[/evil])
I've heard only good things about it, ease of use, thorough stats, etc (though I've never used them myself).
then again, I have access to my server logs, so I'm spoilt for having all the information I want
ooh, pretty, they've improved it since I tried it then.
edit: that doesn't show where your visitors are from ;)
it shows where the subnet you are on of your ISP is based :p
like all those helpful "meet women in your area" ads that list women in london, or maidenhead cause that's where your IP resolves to :)