What are some websites or programs that offer your website's statistics? I use awstats, but are there any other ones?
google analytics is very detailed and free although i find it always shows much lower traffic values than awstats
I use Engineseeker because they allow to track multiple websites and submit you websites to 120 search engines for a 5 dollars a month.
Yeah, google analytics is great, however some people swear by http://www.statcounter.com/ So you might want to try them both before deciding for one. I like analytics because it's totally integrated with google and allows advanced analysis of your traffic. Also, it can be used with google adwords to additional information about how does your campaign perform.
i just signed up to google analytics today, i had to copy and paste a code and email it to my programmer as i dont have any HTML skills
statcounter is my favorite, and it's live. Google's takes a day for it to update, and I installed the code, and all it says is tracker installed, but I never get stats anymore.
Awstats has a very crude method of counting unique visitors. Every time you visit your website with a new IP, you are counted as a new unique visitor. It does well in rest of the statistics it provides. So just in case you go for Google Analytics, be prepared to see a great difference between the numbers they report for UV. Also may be please have the URL of your website? If its a small website, you can use Wordpress as a CMS. Its easy and has a lot of extensions. I use Wordpress as my CMS and there is this plugin called Statpress that shows real-time statistics just like statcounter.
How about sitemeter? Is it any good as far as accurary goes? I like how it shows what brower, OS, and screen resolution each unique visitor is using.
Really? I wonder why that is? ...I have seen there's a plug-in for Firefox that blocks Analytics from capturing stats - perhaps it could be that?
you still need to know which is the best? use google analytics and slowly you will master analytics you can use your analytics data to improve your site..I have done that many times
Hi You are not clear with your thoughts, will you give more information. So I can help you out in this matter.
I also get a much higher result from awStats than I do from Google Analytics. In my case I'm pretty sure awStats is counting robots in it's stats when it shouldn't be - it's the only explanation I can find and seems to be a common belief with other webmasters.
Well I use analystics in the background i rely on Sitemeter! Sitemeter is the best! you should try it