statcounter.com

Most web hosts provide some statistics about the visitors to your site, but for more control, I use Statcounter - www.statcounter.com. There is a free version and some paid ones. I'm reviewing the free one as my sites have fairly low visitor levels at the moment, but the main advantage of the paid versions is they they will list a lot more visitors - the free one lists only the first 500 entries, or 250,000 page loads in any given month. The paid ones are in 3 levels, from $9 to $29 (US dollars) a month, depending on how many visitors/pageloads you need it to show - up to a maximum of 25,000 entries, or 15,000,000 page loads a month. The site is very clear and ...  Read the complete review

I found statcounter after setting up my first website while I was searching for a free way of tracking my hits. Most of the services I found for free included having to place some kind of banner or counter on my home page, which I wasn't willing to do. Statcounter don't make you do anything like this and their service is quite impressive. You can sign up for an account for free which gives you detailed statistics, not only of the hits on your website but each visitors IP address, their location on the globe, the ISP they are using, what page they entered the site on, what page they exited, how long they were on the site for and what pages they loaded aswell ...  Read the complete review

If you run your own website, in any shape or form, it is always interesting to see how it performs. There are many visitor counters around, but in my search many years ago, most of them linked to dodgy sites, or contained advertising. Then I discovered StatCounter.com and have never been happier. You can have a free service from them, or a paid for service, I have the free option. It is very easy to configure, and once you have input all the required details it generates some code. You then copy and paste this into the index page of your website (or another page if you want to track something else). Then when you visit your StatCounter account page, you are ...  Read the complete review

I have a free statcounter account and while i like what they offer i really dislike the log size that you get for free. On the forum that i help run it can only can only show the visitors from the last 12 hours max and i do like to see how people found the forum although the log runs out too quick and sometimes overwrites data while i am asleep so i lose out on some data. It is possible though to increase your log size for $9 (£4.50) a month but i don't feel that statcounter are that good that i should spend £4.50 a month on increasing the log size for my statcounter account. For free statcounter offers alot but in terms of paying for it i don't think it is worth the ...  Read the complete review

Visitor counters in general I do have three different websites. For all of them I did buy in the domain and tried to get extra features free-of-charge, e.g. web hosting, newsletters, guest book and visitor counters. I see a big importance to know how many people visit my pages, to track them and to see how they navigate. *** About statcounter: RISK: Statcounter ist he business name of an Irish IT guy named Aodhan Cullen of 77, Delwood Drive, Castleknock, Dublin 15 tätig. The service have been active since 2000. Due to the fact that he is a freelancer and not a corporation, there is a risk that from day 1 to another the service will be ...  Read the complete review