hitbox.com

Hitbox is a absolutley free website stats service. To use the hitbox service you must first register and also put the special hitbox counter somewhere on your site. The hitbox counter doesn't actually show the number of page hits your homepage has had. Instead it just shows a small advertisement. This service is very advanced because the amount of information and stats it can provide about your visitors and the pages they view is unbelievable. With the hitbox counter on your website you can visit hitbox.com anytime to get up to date stats on your website. The first page you will see on your account page is a general summary, ...  Read the complete review

First the bad points: * Their member newsletter rotates the same articles on a weekly basis and reads like a big advertising hoarding, in other words is useless. * The member stats pages can be very slow to load on occasion, are frequently also greater than 80K in size, and use a silly java navigation panel that takes for ever to initialise on each page view. * Occasionaly the HTML code inserted on your pages can be slow to load, which affects the performance of your website. * Stats tracking assumes one point of entry to your site, and will only track the refering URLs (and browser info) visitors using this one point of entry. ...  Read the complete review

I used to think that hitbox was merely a website that provided a means of monitoring visitors to your web site. I signed up, but then used other site monitoring services (see my opinion on humanclick). But I let them continue to send me their weekly newsletter - and I'm glad I did. It is packed with great tips on how to develop your website and solve all those niggling little problems that otherwise would leave you scratching your head. Here is a selection of recent topics, just as a taster for you..... ...streaming media ...getting music on your site ...image searching ...ascii sheet ...browser compatibility info ...error codes ...  Read the complete review