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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Web Statistics

If you own a web site, it is important to know how many people are visiting your site and where are they originating from. There are many web statistics programs on the market, but did you know that some of the best programs already come free with most web hosting plans.

If you have a web hosting plan for your web site that includes cpanel, then you probably have a whole bunch of web statistic programs built in. Cpanel is a type of control panel for web hosting products. It is extremely easy to use and offered to administrate your web site. There are usually 3 different types of statistics you will find on cpanel; Analog, Webalizer and Awstats.

Webalizer is a statistic program that shows you in a graph form how many visitors have visited your site month by month. This type of statistics is very basic and only takes a quick glance to receive your web site information. If you want more detailed information you will probably need to check out the other two statistic programs.

Depending on your information style you may prefer Analog or Awstats. Analog gives you detailed information, however it can be at times difficult to read. All the information you probably like to know is listed on Analog, but most people have difficulty finding it.

Awstats, is usually the favorite web site statistic program on cpanel. Not only does it tell you plenty of information, from number of hits per day and month, it also tells you where they originate from, how long visitors stayed at your site, what country did they come from, what browser did they use, their IP’s etc. It is also simple to read and find the information the information that you are looking for.

So if you have a web site and would like to know more about your visitors check out your cpanel statistic programs. They can be extremely helpful in analyzing your site and drawing more traffic to it.