I was looking at my YPN impression stats and noticed that less than 20% of my traffic is actually viewing threads in my forums. I'm not exactly sure what they are doing, but would like to find out so I can optimize my ad placement. For example, I have an ad that is displayed inside the final post in a thread. This ad averages around 3,800 impressions a day. The header ad averages 34,000 impressions a day. I've been using histats.com, but it doesn't exactly give me a good idea of what my members/visitors are doing. I need something that shows stats per page. I'd like to use a remote service instead of a program that reads the apache logs. Any suggestions?
Google Analytics is by far the best free web monitoring analytics program; with proper use of click tracking you can follow your visitors and see what exactly is going on. www.google.com/analytics
Is Analytics better than it was when it launched? I remember trying it when it was first released ad it REALLY slowed down my website. edit: thanks for the replies.
You won't regret it. Google Analytics provides very detailed information for just about anything that happen on your site
I use statcounter.com for all my sites but after reading this i may be time to have a look again at google analytics.never wanted to go back and at new codes to all the pages.
Well all this time, I have been using http://www.statcounter.com I mostly do my optimization with their results on my website it bursts your performance..
Yeah... google has been treating me well. Much better than it was the first tiem I used it. If your site gets under 10,000 views a day try Woopra. It is in beta and takes a couple weeks to get approved... but it is amazing. Live stats! Not good for heavy traffic sites though. My 10,000 views are up by the time I wake up in the morning.