Web counters -anyone know a good one?

[directmarketingadvice]

DSoes anyone know of a good free web counter?

If not, is there a good value paid one?

Cheers

Steve

[Eagle]

Do you mean to view 'page hits'?

They can be wildly innacurate and don't usually reflect the true (actual) visits to your pages. A bit tacky and passé too.

Better to get a good 'stats' prog from your webhost.

Of course, I'm no expert on this matter and I'm sure someone will be along shortly to clarify. :)

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Steve,

Heres one: http://www.sitemeter.com/default.asp

Heres one I own (but it's basic): http://www.thematrixx.com/counter

Rob

[Coding Monkey]

And you may as fill in your details on Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/) so you can sign-up once it becomes available again.

[creacom]

Hi Steve ':D'

Try the following

http://my3.statcounter.com

Hope it helps

Jacqueline

[a-okadmin]

statcounter.com gets my vote too. They have an invisible counter option which I find very useful.

[directmarketingadvice]

Thanks folks.

That gives me a few to look into.

Steve

[properhost]

I am using this ....

http://www.addfreestats.com/afc.html

[AcornDomains.co.uk]

statcounter.com gets my vote too. They have an invisible counter option which I find very useful.

Yes I use statcounter.com for this reason too, I haven't found another one that lets you hide its existence but is still a free service.

[DarrenC]

I can recommend stats counter, and I have a Google analytic account, but my advice wouldn't be to stick to just one tool or software to monitor your website traffic.

If your hosting company offers server stats like Awstats then I would reommend using that - this updates every 24 hours but gives you good information on which search engines are visiting your site and pages and how regularly.

Top it off with something like stats counter which will give you live visitors, but go for unique visitors rather than hits as this is inaccurate.

It is vital that everyone has a statistical application, be it server end or via a webcounter site. I found out that I was getting a lot of traffic on one page, but they were only staying on the page for 15 seconds and then leaving the site..

After visiting this page I found the links weren't working (doh!) and the visitors were getting directed to a 404 error page! Without the stats I would not have known, and would of continued to loose traffic to a competitor.