Which web analytics tool do you use for tracking visitors on your page? I want to know exactly on which link on my page user clicked. If i have two link to same site with different anchor text I want to know which is more efficient?! thanks
Google Analytics is the best option for it. The Site Overlay tool tells you exactly how many times a link was clicked (provided that it is an internal link) For external links, you will have to use some other tracking system, which is different from a web analytics tool.
I use Google Analytics. Stats have a 2-3 hours delay. Anybody knows any tools with a delay in 0.5 hour?
Google Analytics doesn't show you exactly which link was clicked on web page. It only shows you how many users followed all links from page A to page B. Let's say a have page A and 2 links on that page that point to page B - one with anchor text "link1" and one with "link2". 10 users followed link link 1 and 30 users followed link 2. Google Analytics will only tell me that that page B was accessed 40 times from page A. And i want a analytics tool that tells me exactly how many times each link was clicked...link1 = 10, link 2 = 30
providing your pages dont use query strings such as page.php?index page.php?news awstats should do you.
@rosiee007 which analytics do you recommend for tracking external links ? I am basically in need to know where do my visitors go after leaving my site and possibly what is their escape route Ohh well I think I am going to erase all the external links and then they will stay in my site by force.
I've used a bunch so let me try and answer a few of these questions. Right now i'm trying out google analytics and that's the only thing I wish they did was track external links. It would be the ultimate if they did, even with the delay. For external links use addfreestats.com. It's free and they track external links and even tell you if it was an adsense or other ad out click. Sweet. The only one that does it that I know of. You have to make a sep account for each site if you have a ton, which is a pain. But it's free so what can you say. As for real-time stats, sitemeter or statcounter. I like statcounter because you can add as many sites to one account that you want. They're limited though in reports unless you buy an upgrade. However, both seem like almost right on real time. Hope that helps
Thatz not possible., If your site content is good > They will stay or become a member or bookmark it ., But even if you erase the external links, They still have the option to close the site
there is something called mint stats software but its paid, you can track outgoing links , but unsure if you can do that for each visitor, also it gives you live stats immediate for each and every activity in the site. cost is $30/m
Try appending an extra query string to each link, e.g. <a href="nextpage.htm?link=1">First Anchor Text</a> <a href="nextpage.htm?link=2">Second Anchor Text</a> HTML: Google Analytics will identify each as a separate page. I use the free version of Statcounter to check live stats (useful for some crude confirmation that the latest tweaks worked), and Google Analytics when doing any serious analysis.
My analytics don't report the same numbers, maybe I don't know how to interpret them. What is the equivalence ? My stats for December Awstats - GAnalytics ---------------------- Unique Visitors = Visits 2000 ---- 1000 Page View = Pages 3500 ------ 1500 --------------------------------- ? Shouldn't they be more in sync with each other ? I know there is a descrepancy due to the fact GA is javascript based But should they be that far off.