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- The Best Things in Life Are Free
When it comes to tracking your websites statistics - page views, unique visitors, traffic referrals and the like - you’ll find that the default tracking system that comes with your web host just won’t cut it. I’m looking at mine right now and it’s all over the place. According to the built in system, since the beginning of 2008, one of my websites has received 4,358 unique visitors over 130,905 visits and during that time 992,871 pages have been displayed.
As for where all these people came from.. I’m not really sure. The referring URLs are limited - if not non-existant - and in short, I don’t know how people found my website and what made them stay for over an hour, as 20% of the visitors do. It’s all well and good to display statistics and charts en masse and reel off boring information such as IP addresses (because of course I know where 88.208.16.48 is) and the fact that 90% of the visitors use an ‘unknown’ operating system (that helps me so much) but don’t you think there’s a limit on how much information is helpful?
