W3 COUNTER

FINDING OUT WHO IS VISITING YOUR WEB SITE IS EASY WITH…. W3 COUNTER

FIND OUT WHO'S USING YOUR WEBSITE, HOW THEY FOUND YOU, AND WHICH PART OF YOUR CONTENT ATTRACTS THEM.

I have recently chosen the web tool called W3counter. I have chosen this tool because the company which i will be helping is my family business which is tourism orientated. Since the company is selling a PRODUCT it is great to know certain things about the demographics of customers.

A lot of customers do not like participating in questionaries and it can often be quite hard to find out certain details about the customers.

With the W3 counter we can find out a lot about the customers but more importantly we can find out exactly what we want to know about the customer such as Where the customer is from, what the customer was searching for when they found our page. ( which can help with future product marketing). and also certain other little aspects like how many times they clicked on a particular link and how long they spent on the page.

I know this is not a particularly technical tool but if you are managing a web page for a customer your main income can often come from site management and maintenance.

With this tool in your inventory you could potentially charge the customer for marketing research and other useful information that most businesses would be very interested in finding out. On the other hand you could also give the customer access to this feature without letting them into the control panel feature where they can do damage.

Installation

A HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE ON A DAILY, WEEKLY OR MONTHLY BASIS. VIEW THE UNIQUE VISITS, RETURN VISITS AND PAGE VIEW COUNTS FOR YOUR SITE OVER ANY DATE RANGE.

RECENT VISITORSA REAL-TIME SPY FOR YOUR WEBSITE — SEE THE RECENT

VISITORS TO YOUR SITE, THEIR IP ADDRESS AND COMPUTER INFORMATION, AND FOLLOW THEIR PATH THROUGH YOUR SITE.

RECENT REFERRERSSEE WHAT SITES ARE SENDING YOU TRAFFIC TODAY

WITH A LIST OF THE MOST RECENT REFERRING URLS.

RECENT SEARCHESRECENT SEARCHES SHOWS EXACTLY WHAT KEYWORDS

PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR WHEN THEY FIND YOUR SITE.

TWITTER MENTIONSFIND OUT WHO'S TALKING ABOUT YOU ON TWITTER. WE AUTOMATICALLY MONITOR TWITTER FOR MENTIONS OF YOUR WEBSITE URL IN TWEETS AROUND THE WORLD.

LOCATIONS MAPDISCOVER WHERE YOUR WEBSITE VISITORS ARE LOCATED WITH THIS TOP COUNTRIES REPORT AND GOOGLE MAPS OF RECENT

VISITORS' LOCATIONS.

TIME ZONESMAKE BETTER DECISIONS ABOUT WHEN TO PUBLISH NEW

CONTENT AND DISCOVER WHEN YOUR SITE IS MORE ACTIVE WITH THIS MAP SHOWING THE TIME ZONE DISTRIBUTION OF

YOUR TRAFFIC.

LANGUAGESKNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO INVEST IN ALTERNATE LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF YOUR SITE WITH THIS REPORT DETAILING THE

LANGUAGES YOUR VISITORS PREFER.

WEB BROWSERSSEE HOW THE BROWSER WARS ARE RAGING ON YOUR OWN SITE — WHICH BROWSERS ARE MOST POPULAR, BOTH BY FAMILY (I.E. INTERNET EXPLORER OR FIREFOX) AND BY SPECIFIC VERSIONS.

OPERATING SYSTEMSAN INTERACTIVE PIE CHART AND TABLE OF THE TOP

OPERATING SYSTEMS YOUR SITE VISITORS USE.

SCREEN RESOLUTIONSDETERMINE HOW WIDE YOUR SITE DESIGN SHOULD BE TO FIT

ON YOUR TRAFFIC'S MONITORS, OR WHAT PORTION OF THE PAGE IS ABOVE THE FOLD, WITH THIS REPORT OF THE TOP

MONITOR SCREEN RESOLUTIONS.

COLOUR DEPTHSA REPORT OF THE TOP COLOUR DEPTHS USED BY YOUR

VISITORS' MONITORS.

JAVASCRIPT SUPPORTSEE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR VISITORS WILL ENCOUNTER

PROBLEMS USING JAVASCRIPT CODE ON YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE IT'S DISABLED IN THEIR BROWSERS

TOP PAGESLEARN WHICH OF YOUR CONTENT IS MOST ENGAGING WITH

THIS REPORT OF THE MOST VIEWED PAGES.

ENTRANCE PAGESFIND OUT WHAT PAGES ARE BRINGING IN NEW VISITORS MORE THAN OTHERS — THE ENTRANCE PAGE REPORT TEACHES YOU WHAT PAGES ARE MOST OFTEN THE FIRST VIEWED WHEN A

VISITOR FIRST FINDS YOUR SITE.

EXIT PAGESKNOW WHAT PAGES OF YOUR SITE NEEDS THE MOST WORK

WITH THE EXIT PAGES REPORT. IT'S YOUR CONTENT ORDERED BY THE HIGHEST BOUNCE RATE — THE PAGES PEOPLE VIEW

MOST OFTEN RIGHT BEFORE LEAVING YOUR SITE

CLICK OVERLAYSEE YOUR OWN WEBPAGE WITH CLICK-THROUGH DATA OVERLAID ON TOP OF ALL THE LINKS AS COLOR-CODED

INFORMATION MARKERS.

CLICK LISTA LIST OF THE TOP LINKS CLICKED ON ANY PAGE OF

YOUR WEBSITE

VISIT LENGTHTHE VISIT LENGTH REPORT WILL SHOW YOU HOW MANY

MINUTES VISITORS ARE SPENDING ON YOUR SITE.

VISIT DEPTHVISIT DEPTH SHOWS YOU HOW DEEP — HOW MANY LINK

CLICKS — YOUR VISITORS ARE EXPLORING INTO YOUR SITE.

TOP REFERRERSFIND OUT WHAT THE TOP SOURCES OF TRAFFIC TO

YOUR SITE ARE WITH THIS REPORT OF TOP REFERRING URLS AND REFERRING DOMAINS.

TOP SEARCH ENGINESSEE THE SEARCH ENGINE WAR BEING WAGED WITH THIS

REPORT BREAKING DOWN HOW MUCH TRAFFIC TOP SEARCH ENGINES ARE SENDING TO YOUR SITE.

TOP SEARCHESDISCOVER THE ACTUAL SEARCHES PEOPLE ARE MAKING

AT SEARCH ENGINES WHEN THEY FIND AND CLICK THROUGH TO YOUR SITE.

FEEDBURNER STATSTRACK READERSHIP OF YOUR RSS FEEDS WITH

FEEDBURNER, AND VIEW YOUR LATEST CIRCULATION, REACH AND FEED ITEM HITS IN W3COUNTER AS WELL

COMPETITOR COMPARISONCompetitor comparison

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