Hello, I'm new to this forum. Thank you for the great information. My hosting company has been losing blocks of days from my web stats. I've complained and they've restored bits and pieces-but I'm still missing weeks out of one month and days dropped here and there. Yesyerday, they lost another 100 unique visitors from morning to afternoon. I've complained and they've basically told me they don't care. (My website is small, but growing, currently 7-10K uniques/month) My question: should I move to another host or will I encounter the same problem. Should I install AWstats code to each page myself and join their free monitoring service (they offer up to 20K page views/month of monitoring free) Is there a better, inexpensive way to handle this?? I'll probably exhaust the 20K very quickly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. John
Hello. You should never hesitate to move your site if you feel that you are not treated as you deserve. There are hundreds of hosting providers, and that is the only way to make stand the best of them. There are sites that rank hosting providers according to their customers' satisfaction. Visit one of them to make your feelings known, and to choose a better one. With respect to free alternatives for tracking the visitors to you site, here is one: Free tracking and analyzing programs
Use Google Analytics or StatCounter or HiStats. They are good alternatives. FIrst and third are totally free.
Yeah, just insert the google analytics code before the body tages of your html web page. So much easier!