site hits

[LiviLou]

How can you tell if your site is getting any hits?

[softwaresubmit]

Implement traffic tracking system. There are lots of free and commercial solutions out there.

[LiviLou]

Thank you for the info. Which one do you suggest?

[carbonize]

If your host offers PHP and SQL then you can do your own traffic monitoring otherwise you will have to use an external counter. A good external counter is Bravenet (http://www.bravenet.com).

[softwaresubmit]

We use www.gemius.pl, this system has GUI in english also, but the registration process and site is in polish.

[softwaresubmit]

If your host offers PHP and SQL then you can do your own traffic monitoring (...)

I takes a lot of very time consiming programming to implement a good in-house traffic monitoring software. You should consider a SQL data warehouse with many cubes... Not a simple task :-)

A simple solution - it is a matter of hours, no SQL or PHP needed if you have access to your site logs :-) But why bother, save your time and money, use a 3rd party software or service.

[carbonize]

I never said she should code her own stats script. There are plenty of free stats scripts available out there that are simple to install and only require PHP and SQL.

Yes it is easier if you have access to your servers logs but it's even easier if you have a script for making them into something a bit more legible.

None of my suggestion would actually cost anything. There is a plethora of free scripts and free counter/stats services out there.

[Narasinha]

I takes a lot of very time consuming programming to implement a good in-house traffic monitoring software. You should consider a SQL data warehouse with many cubes... Not a simple task :-)

That would probably be a little bit overkill for a low-traffic site. If you're getting thousands of hits an hour, then yes, that's probably the way to go. Someone getting thousands of hits an hour is already going to know that.

I'm getting 3000 to 4000 individual page views per month on my personal site, on a server where I don't have access to the logs. I modified (quite heavily) a program in perl that generates its own log files. Not something that everyone would do, but there are several such perl scripts available for people who have server space with CGI capabilities, but no server log access. There are also good PHP/mySQL alternatives for sites that have that option.

[masterpeace]

My site hosting has free stats etc included but I have had a free counter with Extreme Tracking http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/ for years (since before I had my own domain)

While the free version means that means folks can check out the stats for my home page, I still keep it because it shows some of the most basic info in a straight forward format that only takes a second to check.

[LiviLou]

I want to thank all of you for your suggestions. I had no idea that there were so many ways to check this out. I will look into each one and see which one is best for my situation.

[market1]

Extreme looks like an excellent program. Unfortunately one may track only one page of a website. I recommend Open Tracker (http://www.opentracker.net). It isn't free but neither is it expensive, and it gives better stats in different ways than Extreme. I've used Awstats and Urchin in the past, both excellent programs. Awstats is free without having to place a link, but corrupts easily and can be difficult for nongeeks. Urchin also corrupts, though not as quickly as Awstats, and also gives superior stats. But it is WAY expensive. Open Tracker gives better stats than either Awstats or Urchin, doesn't corrupt on your server and is considerably less expensive. May as well be free compared to Urchin, and I track about 600 pages and about as many links with it. Also, the guy who runs Open Tracker is very cool. He's been a big help to me. Tell him Larry at Viola Fair (http://www.violafair.com) sent you.

[RJ38]

The best stats system I've found is AXS. You can track hits to pages, where they came from, as well as links clicked from your site.

http://www.xav.com/scripts/axs/

[mikmik]

AXS is great, has great support, easy to install, FREE! Good call RJ38

[carbonize]

I personally use TFS Statistics (http://www.oplossing.net/downloadcat.php). Here is their blurb:


Features: Web site statistics by month, year, OS, browser, bots/spiders, referrers,last visitors, last bots/spiders, page hits, visitors by country, average visitors/bots and % function on all counters. In the last bots/spiders and last vistors overview you can click a link so you can see what pages are requested by the visitor,spider or bot. Referrers are listed by domain if you click on the domain you will see de pages where from your site is listed. you can also exclude ipadresses, so they will not showup in you statistics.

All it needs is PHP and SQL.

[anuj_pandit1]

Hi ImaDunce,
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[drummin]

I just wanted to add, Masterpeace wrote:
While the free version means that means folks can check out the stats for my home page, I still keep it because it shows some of the most basic info in a straight forward format that only takes a second to check.

I use this type of free counter and add them to every page of my site, I just tuck them behind a picture so they're out of site and therefore private.

[masterpeace]

I just wanted to add, Masterpeace wrote:
While the free version means that means folks can check out the stats for my home page, I still keep it because it shows some of the most basic info in a straight forward format that only takes a second to check.

I use this type of free counter and add them to every page of my site, I just tuck them behind a picture so they're out of site and therefore private.

I tend to live & work by the principle that my word is my bond, and you will find most of the simple free counters like extreme.com have it written as a requirement that there is a button or link which must be visible as part of terms of use. I personally choose to honour that requirement.

Sure you can hide those buttons easy and in the end it is your personal choice. The likelyhood is that no-one will ever know or come to tell you off. But you should know the rules before you choose to break them.

[drummin]

Good point.
I'll look into the rules for my particular counter.
Drummin

[mir100]

the best web statistics which is also free is AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ... that's what i use on my site that i run from my pc http://mirnet.homelinux.net ...

[ren23]

My host's site stats are pretty useful, except that there is no way to get a daily breakdown of referrers.

Does anyone know of a good, free stat tracker that does not require that I include code in every page? (altering all the html files would take quite a while)