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Hiya. I am so not techno-savvy, so I am hoping someone can help me out. I would love to find an easy-to-use program to track the number of hits I get on my page each day. The only ones I've been able to find are ones that publicly display the counter, but that's just not my style.

Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Jones on February 14, 2008 at 1:42pm
www.statcounter.com gives you the most detail analysis that I've seen but you only get a log size of 500 hits for free otherwise you have to pay for it. Or you can try Google Analytics, they provide a pretty good visitor and hit counter, although it is a little bit less detailed than statcounter it is a lot easier to use and all their features are free.

~Chris Jones
Permalink Reply by Hollywood Sucker on February 14, 2008 at 1:45pm
Hey, you rule!
Permalink Reply by mfrech on February 14, 2008 at 1:51pm
i agree with chris--i use statcounter and it gives a great deal of information for free (and invisibly, if you so choose.)
Permalink Reply by Penelope on February 14, 2008 at 8:08pm
yes!! www.statcounter.com - it has lots of features, its free and the code is invisible on your blog/site. let me know if it works well for you!
Permalink Reply by Hollywood Sucker on February 14, 2008 at 8:44pm
Thanks for all of your help. Now I will have so many stats I won't know what to do with them all.
Permalink Reply by brunette on February 18, 2008 at 2:41am
Has anyone had trouble with StatCounter.com and Wordpress?

I can enter the code, it seems to be counting, but I can't get any stats on where people are being referred from and search engine keywords etc. I know my hits have gone up in the next couple of days (probably because of my involvement with 20sb) because Statcounter is telling me how many visitors I have... but I can't confirm that the readers are coming from here because it's not giving me those details.

Any tips? I'm not sure if i have to turn something on or off in the Statcounter settings?
Permalink Reply by James Ink on February 18, 2008 at 3:26am
brunette,
Because Wordpress doesn't allow javascript (for security reasons) certain aspects of StatCounter i.e. referrals and search engine keywords won't work. This is the same for other stat applications.

Fortunately the inbuilt stats package with Wordpress (available on the dashboard) can do most of these things anyway. By clicking on the headers such as 'Referres' and 'Search Engine Terms' you can look at various time frames i.e. last week, last month, last quarter, all time.

Hope this helps
Permalink Reply by brunette on February 18, 2008 at 6:54am
Ohh ok. I think I remember reading something like that in the info now, but you know.. you just skim these things!

Still I'm getting more info about where in the world people live and things like that so I think I'll keep it!

Thanks for clarifying.
Permalink Reply by Christopher Jones on February 18, 2008 at 10:17am
I use Wordpress and Statcounter together and it allows me to view the refering links or where visitors came from.

~Chris Jones
Permalink Reply by santousha on February 22, 2008 at 5:55am
I use google analytics and mybloglog stats. While both are good I'm still on the look out for something better :)
Permalink Reply by Lisa on February 23, 2008 at 11:19am
google analytics. way google analytics. consider nothing else.
Permalink Reply by Pleasedonteatjo on March 4, 2008 at 4:29pm
Has anyone else found that with googleanalytics their stats suddenly go to 0?

Its happened twice now...like it'll be fine then stop collecting stats. I go with feedburner now.

And before any smart arse says anything, I visit my site at least 10 times a day and even I don't show up on it ;)

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