What is the best way of tracking number of users my site r

[kalender2]

What is the best way of tracking number of users my site receives?

[Lombadikko]

Google Analytics. Best ever and free. You can’t beat the price. Let me know if you need more info about how to implement it.

[maggie47]

Is it a difficult installation to use this Google option?

[twit]

Very easy to do. Just create a Google Account, go to http://www.google.com/analytics/ and sign-up. It will ask you couple of questions like your web site address etc and then will provide you with a code which you will paste just before </body> section of your site. I hope this helps.

[tima]

As an alternative to Google Analytics, you can use the traffic logs that we create for you and run them through AWStats. This can be done directly from your Control Panel by clicking on Site Management -> Web Site Tools -> Statistics. This allows you to get a monthly traffic report without having to give all your data to Google.

As an alternative, you can also download your log files from your site and run them through any other web log analyzer.

[maggie47]

As an alternative to Google Analytics, you can use the traffic logs that we create for you and run them through AWStats. This can be done directly from your Control Panel by clicking on Site Management -> Web Site Tools -> Statistics. This allows you to get a monthly traffic report without having to give all your data to Google.

As an alternative, you can also download your log files from your site and run them through any other web log analyzer.

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[michaeledward]

I have been looking at the statistics log files.

I have downloaded 'WinLog Expert Lite' to examine the file, but I am also looking at the raw data. It looks as if each visitor gets their own header listing, but I can't figure out what each of the headers means. Is there a place to get the definitions (Some are obvious).

#Fields
date
time - (Which time zone is being referenced?)
s-ip - (This appears to be the IP address of my web site.
cs-method
cs-uri-stem
cs-uri-query
cs-username
c-ip
cs-version
cs(User-Agent) - (What browser is the client using ... but some of the codes are difficult)
cs(Cookie)
cs(Referer)
cs-host
sc-status
sc-win32-status
sc-bytes
cs-bytes
time-taken

[GrabHappy]

As an alternative to Google Analytics, you can use the traffic logs that we create for you and run them through AWStats. This can be done directly from your Control Panel by clicking on Site Management -> Web Site Tools -> Statistics. This allows you to get a monthly traffic report without having to give all your data to Google.

As an alternative, you can also download your log files from your site and run them through any other web log analyzer.

Oh I like the idea of using myhosting's option, that fantastic that you guys offer that

I was thinking the same thing.

[stephenpeter]

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[Amy]

I would go with Google Analytics's.