Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Tracking web site statistics.

As you can see I have not had any visitors to this blog since February 2009. I feel lonely.

I use Statcounter.com to help me keep track of the activity of my web sites. Here's how Statcounter.com explains each way it tracts data.

  • Returning Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person is returning to your website for another visit an hour or more later. 
  • First Time Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person has no cookie then this is considered their first time at your website.
  • Unique Visitor - Based purely on a cookie, this is the total of the returning visitors and first time visitors - all your visitors.
  • Page Load - The number of times your page has been visited.

Any way you look at it I'm not popular. Statcounter is free and can hide the counter from the web page you decide to place the tracking link on.

1 comment:

Elaine said...

Just one thought... can those trackers keep track of people who use RSS feeds that go into their emails or on a single webpage like Google feeds? Reason I ask is there have been many times I've read your post as an email because I have my RSS feed set up in that way, but I do not visit the site.

I'm a fan of yours. Big fan. I think you're hot!