Hit Counters and Statistics

Hit Counters and Statistics

There are dozen of hit counters available on the internet, just search in Google or some other search engine and more than you need on results will turn up. There are paid and free ones available. On this page we will explain what the benefits and what the draw backs are of these counters.

You as a webmaster have, like any other webmaster your own Administration Panel on the Server, where you can look up the statistics of your web sites. It works similar like a hit counter, every time a visitor will visit your site its will count this as one hit.

So at the end of each month you will look at your statistic or hit counter and you will be thrilled about the number of visitors you could count last month and the amount of traffic that is achieved. ...But in reality you will look at the double or even triple amount of data because these stats count also all the pages the visitors have refreshed, or those when clicking back and forward.
You will never have the exact number of real visitors viewing your web pages with those tools. Another draw back only the pages are listed but not the way how the user clicked through your pages is revealed.

The benefit from downloaded hit counters is that they are for free. You can just download them from many web sites or they offer them as a free gift. Using their hit counter will be linking back to their pages from your web page, from which they benefit enormously. because it boosts their ranking. Those Hit-Counters are mostly present on the homepages of web sites, which counts even more and is great for the Counter owner! His link popularity will just enjoy an additional rating.
You probably present to the public, with pride - "look how many visitors we had". ....Well, wouldn't it be great if you would just have the real numbers and know how many unique visits took actually place?

We recommend to use a Professional Web Site Tracker Tool. Opentracker is the most handy tool around, just for a a couple of dollars a month and your done. You will know more than ever about the people who visited your pages.

If you ever used a tracking system like we use, you will know that you can analyze your complete web site and get to know everything about your visitors that is important to improve and maintain your site the proper way.

Our SEO Consultants call it visitors behavior, when they check:

• on which links the users clicked
• what they read and what they skip
• on which pages they stay longest
• where they are located
• where they came from (web site, directory or direct link)
• which Search Engines they used to find us
• and which search terms they used.

This are the most important facts to know when you want to make your web page more interesting for people and when you want them to come back