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Sunday, August 31, 2008

W3Counter - Essential, Real Time Stats for your Website or Blog

You shouldn’t need training to figure out your web stats program. W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them. There’s no installation, no configuration, and tracking starts as soon as you copy-and-paste a snippet of code into your website.

Follow Your Visitors
Since W3Counter’s service is truly real-time, you can follow visitors as they browse your website. See who’s online at any time and their entire path from referring source to the page they’re currently viewing. Plus, view detailed activity for visitors that have recently left your site as well.

Dashboards
A dashboard for each of your websites gives you an executive overview of the key statistics to watch. You’ll see trends in visit and page view activity over the past two weeks, along with your top traffic sources, search phrases, content and visitor locations.

City-Level Visitor Maps
Know exactly where your visitors are located with Google Maps down to the city level. You can even watch visitors arriving at your site in real-time appear as new info markers on the map, with referring source and landing page for each new hit.

Web Stats Widgets
Share your web stats with the world. Embed them in your website or blog with 7 different widgets including visitor maps, top pages, top searches, weekly visit graphs and a live feed of the most recent people on your site. You can even pull up a click overlay of your site without logging in to W3Counter.

Visitor Identification
Label your visitors, as easily as installing a plugin on a WordPress blog or adding a few lines of JavaScript to your membership or customer-based website. Your labels will appear in your reports of online and recent visitors, where you can view all the past activity of each member or customer on your website.

Navigation Tracking
Learn how visitors navigate your website with reports on visit depth, time on site, click lists and overlays of click data for every page. Identify hot and cold spots by overlaying color-coded click data right on top of your own webpage, either through the W3Counter site or while on yours with the Page Stats Widget.

Visitor Demographics
W3Counter captures and reports on key demographics of your visitor audience — languages spoken, browsers used, platforms, screen resolutions, locations, and technology features enabled in their browsers. All reported in simple, beautiful pie charts and lists you can drill down into.

Customizable Tracking Image
Choose from dozens of tracking image options — hit counters, images without counts, or no visible image at all. Counters and badges available in colors to match any website or blog theme.

Get more details a http://www.w3counter.com/