A Better Way to Track Stats? – GoStats Review
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Are you looking for a way to better track you stats and metrics for your website? Then I’ve got something for you.
GoStats is a site that’s been around since 1999, which has both free and paid services to get you all sorts of info about who is going to your site, and what they’re doing once they are there. They not only give you a webstats hit counter to use, but they also have a free site traffic analysis.
The free service includes information on page views, return visitors, and page popularity. Their hit counter is an easy (and free! free is important) tool you can use for determining how many people are really visiting your site. If you’re just starting out, and haven’t done any web stats work before (or you don’t have any money), then this is the way to go for you.
If you’re looking for a little more, then GoStats also offers a paid version of their web stats counter that offers a lot more in-depth analysis. You get a lot more options, such as the ability to hide or display as much or as little website traffic as you want, as well as the option to display visitor traffic on a world map to better show where your users are coming from. You also get access to their web statistic reporting engine, and a feature-rich account management control panel.
With proper web stats management, you can know where your visitors are coming from, what they’re doing while on your site, and how long they stay. One of the best ways you can use GoStats for improving your metrics is to understand where people are abandoning the purchase cycle and why. Once you’ve identified that, you can start to fix the problems and start to make more money.
Which we all know is my (and your) favorite thing.
Go check out GoStats for yourself!
Good reminder. Tracking is everything on the Internet, if anyone wants to grow their online business. Without tracking, it’s like shooting in the dark. Maybe a bullet will find a bull eye’s due to sheer dumb luck. But the pros know better…
Darren
Hey John,
what I do is I actually use
Google Analytics, I find it
very good.
But thanks for the recommendation anyway.
Igor
hi…
seem that is a useful site for all blogger, being one of alternative among another same site…
thanks for your info anyway… regards.
I feel sorry for anybody trying to offer a paid service against Google’s free offerings. I’ll check them out though.
For some time, Im using statcounter. Ill check this one out.
Yea, I feel the same.
What does this have that makes it better than Google Analytics?
I use google analytics to monitor and track my blog stats
Do you actually use gostats Jason? I’m searching for the best blog stats tracking – preferably live with graphs to make it easy to see trends.
Google Analytics refuses to display properly on either of my PCs in any browser. I have been unable to determine whether it is because I run Ubuntu or is a Flash or Java problem or something else.
I bet Andy Beard knows which stats are best.
I really hope that when you say it uses a hit counter that you’re confusing it with something else. Hit counters in no way give you correct information about the number of people visiting your site.
Anyway, I’m with the other commenters. Google Analytics and WordPress Stats are what I use.
I’ve been using Statcounter and GA, and to be honest I’m not too happy with either. I prefer Stat but get some weird looking stats that don’t pan out with Statcounter, and I don’t really “get” GA, I guess it’s a conceptual thing where we all process different information slightly differently.
I suppose as far as SERPs go, Google places a fair bit of weight on visitor activity from the data it collects from GA, that’s how I understand it, but tell me if I’m wrong.
But for now I’ll head over and have a look this.