You’ve no doubt seen the little Extreme Tracking icons at the bottom of websites that track traffic to the site. I’d like to share another tracking service you may not be familiar with as most people run it invisibly (it doesn’t require you to run a logo banner on your site). It’s called Statcounter. It’s a free service though you can subscribe to the service to get added features. You just put a strip of code into your site and it tracks your visitors for you, letting you know such helpful things as how many there are and where they are coming from. What I really like about Statcounter is the Control Panel you log into, you can have several projects (separately tracked websites or pages) from the same account and see them all at a glance or click on each one for more detailed information.

Here’s a screenshot looking at Statcounter’s one week visitor traffic graph. It is showing page loads (or hits as often called) in green and unique visitors (actual number of people visiting your site) in blue.

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