I am working on a web stats tracking script for my site at the moment but I seem to be having a problem collecting direct traffic stats. I have been comparing the stats my script collects with those of other agents, such as Google Analytics and my Direct traffic is at about 45% whereas on GA it is around 11%. I must have something wrong with how I am assessing the traffic. How would you classify a direct traffic hit?
What is the basic use of SMO. Is it really give benefit to site. Or gives fake traffic Which site is best for SMO? 1)Face book 2)Twitter 3)Digg 4)Delicious 5)Stumble or any thing else
How are you currently identifying it? Perhaps that's a better start point for people to give opinion on...
check referrer -> should be nothing count out all bots count only actual pages/htmls , dont count hits for css/images/javascript files or whatever... you will be about right that way....
There are many tool you can use for calculating website traffic. Most popular Google Analytic, awstats.sourceforge.net, shinystat.com, webalizer.org & many more
but i'm also looking for such provider which can drive traffics to site www.himalayan-travel-treks.com www.meroblog.net toooo
Google Anaytics does not give you site to site comaprison, if that is what you are looking for. i.e., between 2 URL's you may have or between you & a competitor. Use www.compete.com I personally like the wide range of statistics it provides & the best thing is you dont have to save images. Your stats are stored on a URL. www.hostcat.com
There are ready-made trackers. You can sign up with them and they give you a javascript code (generally) to place on all pages you want tracked.
I think Google Analytics, Statcounter and other free website traffic software can be a big help to calculate direct traffic
I prefer always Google Analytic for count the direct traffic to my site.Hope it's best than other tool.