with statcounter online analytics program you can track visitors of your website and grab some more details about the visitor.
Statistics are very important to every blogger to know about their website strength, visitor interests and many aspects effecting on your blog.To track visitors and their preferences with real time statistics we use Google analytics.This is an excellent program developed by Google to analyze the traffic data of your website.
In Google analytics also some features are not available like ip address capturing and what they are clicking on your website etc. To know this type of statistics one another online program is available that is statcounter.
Here I provide complete review about statcounter analytics program.
Where to Start?
1. First go to statcounter website by typing statcounter.com on your browser and create a new user account for free.
You can extend your service after by upgrading to new version.
2. Signup process is very simple,just fill out less details and click on create account button.
How to start?
1. After creating an account you need add your first project with project url that means your website address,project title,country and set the preferences like statcounter button on website and email reports etc.
2. Now this is the final step in the statcouner project. You can choose your hosting provider in the available list by clicking on it or select default installation guide if your platform is not available.There are approximately 72 platforms are available for installing script.
3. You can also send the installation instructions to your website administrator by email.(This will be useful if you are not admin of your website)
After successful installation of script into your blog or website it starts working within seconds of time.
Features:
There are many useful features are available in this visitor tracking system.I explain them about in a detailed manner.
Popular Pages:
This section displays the popular pages in your website by considering visitors activity and page views.It shows popular pages by hit wise.That means highest page views is the key role in popular pages section.
You can download this data in the form .csv for excel spread sheet.
Entry Pages:
Entry pages is the first page visited by visitor and this section deals about the entry pages and this can be done by getting cookie information.
Exit Pages:
This is quietly opposite to entry pages.Exit pages is the leaving page by the visitor.This feature knows about the exit pages on your blog.For example if a visitor click on software download link and goes to that page then it is exit link.
Came from:
This feature helps you track the visitor preference and where he find our website before came in to our website.For example if he/she click your website link on Facebook or Google search engine then it is the came from source of your website.
Keyword Analysis:
You can track the keywords which gives maximum number of visitors to your website and know the keyword popularity for your blog.This feature helps you to optimize keywords for getting maximum traffic from search engines.
Recent Keyword Activity:
This feature is useful to track the recent visitors of your website by magnifying the user details like ip address,country and which browser they use etc.
Recent Came from:
This is also same like “came from” but it shows the present came from statistics with real time monitoring system.
Search Engine Wars:
It shows the keywords which are used by the visitors to find your website in different search engines.Here it shows graph vise statistics about search engine hits by highlighting those in different colors.
Exit Links:
This is the category which shows the exit link strategy and this would be useful to know about which links are clicked by visitors linked by you in the blog.
Exit Link Activity:
This is an extension feature to exit links feature which gives detailed stats about the exit link strategy.
Downloads:
This is not applicable for low storage websites because this feature shows the downloads of files which are stored in your server.For example you upload a file in your website and give a link of that then it is shows in downloads category.
Download Activity:
It shows some more details about downloads in your website by giving “clicked from” and the exact time of downloading file.
Visitor Paths:
This is the main tool in the statcounter to track the visitors of your website by displaying the country name,ip address and which network they use for browsing your website.
Visit Length:
This is the most important tool for webmasters to track the visitor minimum visit length on your website.It shows a pie chart about the page loads in different color.If you observe most of the visits are less than one minute then kindly install the script on all pages in your website.
Returning visits:
This is also one main aspect in the website popularity over the web.Because you can more returning visits on your blog or website it means you website have more loyal visitors and this is the main thing to estimate the value of website.
Recent Page load Activity:
This shows about the recent page loads of your website with some more detailed manner with which system visitors used to view your website and the references.
Recent Visitor Activity:
It gives more detailed statistics about your website with ip address,location,entry and exit pages in a table manner.
Recent visitor map:
As the name suggests it shows the visitor details on the international map by pointing with a mark.
Browsers:
This section deals with browsers used by the visitors to browse your website and shows the graph of browsers.You can also check the mobile device section to know about the mobile browser visitors.
System Stats:
This feature helps you to track the visitors operating system and resolution of their operating system.If you feel there are less visitors came from any operating system then you can easily track those details too.
Lookup Ip address:
If you know about the ip address of your website visitor then you can find the details about that visitor by using lookup ip address feature.You can also use the wild card option to track large number of ip addresses.
Download Logs:
Last but not least you can download the log of the visitors details in the .csv format.
Note:
Some of the features gives only less details about visitors and some other information.If you want to get full details you need to pay some price to upgrade new plan.But the basic plan is suitable to small website owners.
Is there any feature is missed on this review?Let me know about that feature via comment form.