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I would like to have a tracker on my web site that will tell me where folks are coming from.
(like if they click on my link from joeblow.com it shows up)
this way I can track who comes from where.
is this possible?
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Hmmm, you know, I am certain this exact topic was discussed here before,
complete with great links, but might be so long ago now it's not searchable ...
I know what you're talking about and yes it can be done - but might take awhile to "track" (harhar) any down worth linking to. Will see if I can find some tomorrow. I know my webhost has site stats included, not sure how in-depth their tracking is though - check yours and see if it's already part of your package. Or wait for one of the pros to be along and send you down the right path. (All I can do is give you a nice supply of breadcrumbs to find your way back, hehe)
Good side-topic I'd like to bring up as well - how many people actually USE their tracking stuff? I don't even bother with page/hit counters anymore, myself - but I'm sure more specific analysis type stats are helpful to some people. If I remember I'll start a seperate thread on that later (thanks for the idear!)
~ gem ~
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Here is the one I use. It also provides a nice back link also. Only drawback is the indepth stats are only available for 24 hours. I mainly look at the stats for keyword tracking and the source of the clicks. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to numbers anymore.
http://whozontop.com/
Mike
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Tayna-
Your web host doesn't offer it?
Most do.
My sites have RealTracker Commercial - part of my hosting deal.
But you can use it for ONE PAGE, free.
http://www.realtracker.com/
EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about your visitors!
(And I mean EVERYTHING!!!!)
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Here's my list of freebies.........
I use Statcounter for daily reports: http://www.statcounter.com/
For monthly and yearly: http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
for a log analyzer I use NetTracker lite:
http://www.nettrackerlite.com/download/
To locate an IP address: http://www.itoolpad.com/products/iplookup/
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I use http://top.addfreestats.com/ has everything you want. Just add script to your pages.
See ya, Country Joe
Country Joe's Collectible Stuff
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I love statcounter - www.statcounter.com
I've been using it for a couple of years now and it's great!
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This comes with ipowerweb: does not show on website but on a separate "reports" page:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Has all this:
Features
A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
* Number of visits, and number of unique visitors,
* Visits duration and last visits,
* Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits,
* Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week),
* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB, 269 domains/countries detected, GeoIp detection),
* Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list,
* Most viewed, entry and exit pages,
* Files type,
* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate),
* OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected),
* Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version (Web, Wap, Media browsers: 97 browsers, more than 450 if using browsers_phone.pm library file),
* Visits of robots (319 robots detected),
* Worms attacks (5 worm's families),
* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site (The 115 most famous search engines are detected like yahoo, google, altavista, etc...),
* HTTP errors (Page Not Found with last referrer, ...),
* Other personalized reports based on url, url parameters, referer field for miscellanous/marketing purpose,
* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks".
* Screen size (need to add some HTML tags in index page).
* Ratio of Browsers with support of: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader (need to add some HTML tags in index page).
* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.
and more...
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AXS by Fluid Dynamics is very good. You place a JavaScript on each page. If your web host also offers access to the raw web server logs, you can download that and analyze it using a desktop program like Weblog Expert Lite. I personally use ClickTracks ($400). The decisions I make after analyzing the logs helps me to make changes to the web site that will increase sales.
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Our host provides one, but only shows the top 30 reffers. We use the free tool from www.sitemeter.com . Shows where the last 100 visitors came from, what search engine, using what keywords, which pages were most visited etc. Very cool tool, and free!