After having some trouble with the sitemeter.com webcounter, I've switch to StatCounter for my site tracking. Sitemeter wasn't giving me accurate hit results even when I enabled a cookie for it to ignore my own browser from generating a hit.
Every time I publish or republish my posts, sitemeter recognizes it as a hit. Sitemeter also displays inaccurate time of visitors entering my weblog.
With StatCounter , not only the above problems are non-existence, StatCounter gives loads of useful features to give you detailed information about your visitors.
You get to graphs to analyze unique visitor log, returning visitor log, visit length, Country/State/City/ISP info.........and many more so you can get a scope on the type of visitors you get. One of the best feature is the keyword analysis which lets you view the keywords a visitor used to find your page. You can even see from which URL or search engine they came from.
StatCounter has many powerful features and they are free for non-commercial use. They give you all these ad-free. You even have an option to hide the hit counter. Why not give them a try?
Feel free to visit my weblog at http://tamama.blogspot.com/
Article comments
1 - Matt
Agreed. I use both statcounter and site meter, and I prefer statcounter.
2 - Eric Olsen
the main utility of Site Meter at this point is that -- like Microsoft, for example -- it has become the de facto standard.
Thanks for the heads up and welcome Tamama!
3 - JV
I use statcounter too, have for awhile now and they are, easily, one of the best website trackers out there. Plus you have to love the invisible feature, though I think statcounter deserves to have a public button, simply because they are that good.
4 - Phillip Winn
Statcounter is pretty nice -- until you have more than 9000 pageloads a day, at which point it isn't free any more. :-(
5 - Peter
Just to clarify - StatCounter is free for commercial and non-commercial use. But yes, the free service is meant for sites with up to 9,000 pageloads per day (or 270,000 pageloads per month - but this is much much more than many others offer!). Beyond that number of pageloads, offering the service we do for free is very difficult.
6 - Phillip Winn
Unfortunately for us, Blogcritics.org has been getting around 65,000 page views per day lately, so we're "stuck" with Sitemeter and Extreme for free counters.
I think I'll try it on my personal blog, though, which gets closer to 1500/day.
7 - Aaman
You mean fortunately?
I use statcounter, too, and am very satisfied - it's addictive to look at those logs
8 - Phillip Winn
Well, unfortunately from Peter's perspective. I'm certainly not complaining!
9 - Eric Olsen
Phillip, better get on that slashing the traffic down project
10 - Phillip Winn
Slash traffic? No problem. I'll just disable the comments and break every other link. :-)
11 - Tamama
The free Site Meter will satisfy the need for basic page view counting and analysing but if you are curious about the various background information about your visitors you get every day, Stat Counter will keep you well informed.
For USD9 to USD29 per month depending on your audience size, I think the price is reasonable for the huge range of analytical possibilities you get. Even with only about 25 page view per day on my weblog, I'm always excited to get that data under a magnifying glass.
It depends on you needs.
12 - Tan The Man
Maye I should try it.
13 - Arvin
Yeah, statcounter is the best! I signed up for the 1000 log size for only $9 a month!!!