After Creating your website or even during the process, you will want to know the circulation of your web site. How many people visited your website in a given period of time. How many people were actually interested in your web pages. How many returning visitors, how many new ones, these are the statistics that you want to gather in order to determine further direction of your website(s).
There are a lot of free tools available to keep track of these visits. The most popular one at the moment is google analytics since it is free and the reporting tool provided is really great, including website optimizer, graph to analyze the origin of your visitors and many others.
Another analytics tool that has been gaining popularity recently is Crazy Egg with the concept of heat map. You can view the analysis on the most clicked areas in your web pages. This tool is not free though, the subscription starts off at 9$ per month. If you are a serious analytical geek, this tool will provide you with a great satisfaction.
Some other analytics tools worth mentioning are:
- StatCounter - Free analytics tool, provides an invisible counter for tracking your visitor.
- 103Bees - Provides search traffic analytics. 30 days trial available.
- Woopra - Provides a downloadable client application for monitoring.
- Hittail - Similar to 103 bees, providing suggestion on topic of your website based on search engine traffic.
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