To check site traffic, there are special counters that allow you to keep statistics of traffic for different time intervals, including for a day, month, year and the entire period of the existence of the Internet resource.
Counters can be installed both on the entire site and on its individual pages. They can be displayed on the site and be public, or they can be hidden, then the traffic statistics are available only to the owner (administrator) of the site.
The counter code can be obtained after registering an account on the website of the statistics service. The resulting code is placed anywhere on the site (in html code). Usually webmasters place them at the bottom of the page - in the footer.
Most Popular Free Attendance Counters
LiveInternet is a large Russian portal, one of the services of which is statistics for blogs and websites. The LiveInternet counter allows the site owner to receive detailed statistics, including information about which search engines, from which regions and for what requests users came to the site.
Rambler top 100 is one of the first Russian internet statistics services. However, Rambler does not provide detailed statistics. It is convenient if you are only interested in the number of site visitors without unnecessary details.
Openstat (formerly SpyLog) is a Dutch Internet project on a Russian-language portal. Openstat allows you to get detailed statistics and calculate the conversion (the number of targeted visitors). This data is necessary in order to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
HotLog is a free service for assessing traffic for a website, blog or forum. It provides traffic data by hours, days, months. Once a month, HotLog users can receive PDF reports on site traffic.
Yandex. Metrica is a free service from Yandex. It allows you not only to keep statistics of visits, but also calculates the conversion. Metrica reports are refreshed every five minutes.
How to check attendance without a counter?
An alternative to counters are software modules that are installed on a personal computer or on the server hosting the site. But this kind of software is quite complex for those users who are not very well versed in computer technology. For example, the paid CNStats STD program is designed to be installed on a server. It can work on any hosting with MySQL and PHP support.
A simpler option is the SitesChecker program. It is installed on the computer, after which the address of the site for which you want to collect statistics is indicated in the program settings.
