Tracking Your Statistics

If you aren’t using some type of tracking program for your site, you really need to start using one! How else are you going to know how many hits you have, where they’re coming from, and all the other good details that you’ll want to know in order to get a good idea of how your site is really doing out there?

Here are two very good (and free!) statistic programs that you can easily implement into your site and use:

StatCounter: I’ve been using this one for years and I personally really like it. They have a very easy to use interface with lots of good information. Not the prettiest site, but they keep everything you need to know right at your finger tips.

Google Analytics: Until their most recent update, I felt that Analytics was sort of hard to work with. Recently Google gave this program a bit of an overhaul and I’m liking it a lot better now since I’ve been playing with it the last few weeks. They have some really good graphical representations of the information, and the information is overall very easy to read. The one down side is that you can’t see today’s information until tomorrow.

Either of these programs are great to use. Personally I’d recommend you use both of them for a while to find out which one you really do like the best. Then stick with that one and you’ll have a great way to track how your site is doing!

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