Whats is the best free way to track where traffic to my site is coming from? I have had thousands of visitors to my site and have no idea where it came from. I need to know where it came from so I know whats working and whats not. Any ideas?
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sitesupport posted this at 01:45—27th August 2007.
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I would suggest either google analytics or freestatcounter (i think that's what it is), only thing i dont like about tracking visitors is you gotta have a code on every single page... takes a while.
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Megan posted this at 14:29—27th August 2007.
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Your hosting account should have something installed. Usually the default program is called "webalizer" - check your control panel for "stats" or something similar. We have awstats installed for our sites which has more information and is easeir to read. Neither of these require any extra code to be added to your pages.
I haven't used Google Analytics yet so I'm not sure what kind of information it provides compared to awstats. I know you can get a lot of additional information about what pages people are viewing, for how long, and what links they are following through the site, but I don't know if they provide all the same information that awstats does as well (such as browser/os usage).
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MrCat posted this at 10:36—29th August 2007.
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Your Cpanel should have a tool to give you those data
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mc319 posted this at 22:22—2nd September 2007.
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My Cpanel has a few tools but I want to track specific pages.
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Steven_D posted this at 04:18—3rd September 2007.
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google analytics is the best "out of the box" system i have been by far. It updates every 24 hours with your new stats, can email you each day a report showing your stats. Breaks visitors down by county, net speed, revists and more.
Its pretty amazing. you can set goals, and funnels, so you can see why people do/dont buy from you.
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