Tracking Website Visitors

It’s one thing to put up a website on the vast Internet. It’s another thing to know how many visitors you get, how long they stay, what pages they visit, etc.

Every successful website owner needs the ability to track visitors’ actions.

There are many services out there that are free. Some tell you only how many pages have been visited while others give you in depth statistics on your visitors.

For years I used a free service called CQ Counter:
http://www.cqcounter.com

About 2 years ago I switched to Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a free service that provides in depth statistics. Some of the things it can tell you are:

How many total pages were visited and how many unique visitors you had for a given time period.
How many visitors you had from different countries/states/cities.
How many pages does an average user visit
How many of your visitors are new visitors versus returning visitors
What pages have the highest bounce rates (A bounce is where a visitor leaves after viewing 1 page on your site)

Installing Google Analytics on website is simple. They provide you with a little JavaScript snippet and you paste that on your website pages.
Google Analytics offers numerous graphs on every imaginable aspect of visitors’ surfing patterns on your website.

Read more about Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics/feature_benefits.html