3 Tools to Estimate the Traffic of Any Website
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Friday, January 20, 2012
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There are several tools by with which one can utilize to monitor and
determine the amount of traffic or visitors to a website. There are
several actions or parameters that can be monitored with these tools.
Though some of the tools are limited with regards to the actions they
can perform, most of them can do a lot of things.
Some of these tools are also subscription based whereas others are
not. The ones that are free normally come with the webhosting platform
or service. The data or information generated by these tools is normally
presented in very simple easy to understand formats that even people
who do not know much about the web administration can interpret it
easily.
This tool is usually part of the features of the back end of any
webhosting service or plan. It monitors and reports the amount of
visitors the website receives all the time. This data is then later
presented in reports that are easy to read and understand. From the
reports, one can see the amount of traffic that visited the website on
an hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis. There are also
functionalities to help you present the information in the form of
pictograms. For instance, the number of visitors for a particular period
of time can be presented in the form of bar charts, pie charts, line
charts etc.
Another tool that is also very important in the estimation of website
visitors is known as StatCounter. It can be found at StatCounter.com,
there is a free version as well as a subscription based version. This
tool makes the whole task to very effective and a lot easier to optimize
your website for maximum results. One can use this tool to trace where
the website visitors are coming from i.e. the website sending traffic to
your website, the pages the visitors get to see first when they come,
the duration of their visit to your website, the keywords that they were
searching for (i.e. if they came from search engines), and even the
geographical location of the visitor.
This is another tool that is similar to statscounter. The only
difference is that Alexa get the demographic data of all the website
visitors. It provides discrete information about the visitors such as
the gender, occupations, income levels or ranges, educational status and
the keywords that are being searched the most. All of these information
are useful to webmasters in several ways. This tool can be found at
alexa.com and it is not subscription based.
