Do you always know what’s going on at your website ? How many unique visitors you had and which pages they looked at ? If not , you should consult your best friend, your best colleague and your relative for everything that is related to your online business : Your website statistics !
How to Understand Your Website’s statistics
In the early days of the Internet it was common to visit a web site and see a counter informing you that “you are the 118,456th visitor to this site”, and various webmasters would proudly talk of how many “hits” their sites were getting. Now, things have changed and you will mostly find counters on amateur sites, and wiser webmasters now know that the term “hits” doesn’t really mean much.
The term hit refers to a request for a file on your web site. When someone visits your web page, they request your URL, but in order to see the page, they also have to get all the graphic files that are located on your page. So, one visitor to your page may be requesting 25 different files, and thus you have 25 hits.
7 Free Statistics Trackers for Your Website
As some of you probably now know, WebTrends Live no longer offer the free Personal Edition of their statistics tracker.
Designing by Numbers — Statistics and No Lies!
Stats tell us a myriad of things, some even useful and we’re accustomed to using them in our marketing and selling processes. Frequently abused and made to say what WE want, but here I am merely considering them in ways that influence site design … and, I believe, letting the numbers speak for themselves.