Monitoring Your Website Visitors
You have spent a lot of time and energy getting your website online for the world to see. There are many options available to monitor visitors and how they interact with your website.
Before you look at the options, there are some terms to know when when you research exactly what these services do and why it is important.
- Sources — Lists the link visitors clicked to get to your website
- Locations — Displays a map of visitor locations
- Engagement — Displays the amount of time a visitor spent on each page
- Visitors — Lists the number of visitors you had on your website on any given date
- Content — Lists what pages your visitors looked at on your website
- Heat Map — Displays an overlay of your website to track exactly where visitors clicked
These are just a few of the options. Consider what information is important to you when deciding a service.
Site Statistics is our free monitoring service that tracks unique visitors and the pages they visit. You can also track what search terms they used to find your website. To access these stats, enter your URL with /stats at the end of it. For example: www.coolexample.com/stats. Set up Website Statistics for your website.
Google Analytics offers a powerful free monitoring service to those who are comfortable working with HTML. This service requires a Google Analytics account and the ability to paste HTML code into your Web pages. To view your stats simply log in to the Google Analytics website. If you want more information on using Google Analytics, visit their Getting Started Guide.
Chartbeat.com offers a paid monitoring service with a trending tool to see what pages get the most visitors. If you have a large website with lots of updates, explore what Chartbeat.com has to offer. For more information, see Chartbeat Help.
GoSquared.com displays website stats online or on your mobile device. It tracks visitors, sources, and engagement by visitors. This is a great option for monitoring your website on the go. GoSquared.com website. For more information, see GoSquared Support.
