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How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services

Hi everyone,

I'm going to go over a few of the top services that track your page views, unique visitors, bounce rate, etc.


Here we go How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services


First off we have Google Analytics.
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services
I'm not going to go over this much since most, probably all, of the people reading this will already know about Google analytics and have used it before. Anyways, Google analytics is one of the better free services out there to track your visitors and see where your traffic is coming from, what they're doing, and where they're going.

With Google analytics you can view up to 200,000 pageviews per day which is usually enough for 99% of websites. But if you get more traffic than that, you'll need a different service.



Now I'll cover HiStats.com
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services
Histats is a great free service for anyone wanting to track unlimited visitors and pageviews. At least I think it's unlimited, I haven't been able to find anything that says if they have a daily or monthly limit.

You can view all of histats features by checking out this image from their website:
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services

The only downside of using histats is that you need to put one of their counters on your website somewhere. This is pretty common for free analytics trackers, but I'm not a huge fan of it for my own websites because I feel that it makes my pages look less professional. But that's just my opinion How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services




OpenTracker.net isn't worth covering.
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services
I've looked over opentracker and they do have a lot of great features, but they're comparable to histats and Google analytics.... But for a high price tag which is quite ridiculous in my opinion.

Here's the pricing structure of OpenTracker:
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services




My personal favorite paid service is Clicky.com
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services
Clicky is one of the best options if you have to use something because you have over 200,000 page views per day. If you're under 200k views per day you should just use Google Analytics because they have plenty of great features. But Clicky is amazing and can increase your marketing tactics a ton with all their great features. I've used clicky in the past and it was only because I did days of research on what would be the best paid service and clicky came out to be the best bang for your buck.

You can base how much your monthly fee will cost on how much their 100,000 page views per day plan costs ($29.99). You'll need to do a custom campaign, but it's worth it How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services Let's say you have 400,000 page views per day, you can assume that your custom plan with cost the price of the Pro Platinum Plan but multiplied by 4 which would come out to $119.96. Now you might get a slight discount down to $104.99 but I wouldn't be expecting it since you'll be on a custom campaign.

You can view Clickys pricing structure on this image:
How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services

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Everett
I always used Google Analytics, and was never aware that it was limited to 200,000 pageviews or sessions per day. I thought it was unlimited, but apparently not. If I had to go with another analyics it would probably be with Clicky, as this is what this marketplace uses, and it appears to be a fine analytics tracking system.

I haven't heard anything negative about Clicky, only positive things, however there is an issue of some features such as realtime sessions/pageviews on the site. I like knowing who's on a website in realtime, and that is where Clicky seems to fail. I'm unsure if they included this feature or not but when I previously asked a website owner whom uses clicky they said it was not available.



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TommyCarey
I think real time statistics are good, but only for a website you just launched. After you get going and have been set up and successful for a while, you don't really need real time stats since you have loads of data to look at if needed. It's definitely a nice feature to see if someone is about to buy from you. It kind of reminds me of fishing lol, you can watch the fish look at your bait and sometimes the swim away, but once in a while you can see them take the bait. And taking the bait is the same as watching someone in real time buy something from you How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services



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Lynne
I love looking at my real time analytics, maybe it is silly but I get a kick out of seeing that there are people on my website.
I also wasn't aware that Googel Analytics is limited, but really with my little blogs that will unfortunately not affect me. If it does affect me then I doubt the fact I can't use Google Analytics won't bother me.



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Cristian
Thanks for the share, nice list! I was curious how big website handle things when it comes to tracking their visits.
You said nothing about Google Analytics 360 but that's probably way too expensive. Clicky seems cool. I will try it just to see the difference between GA.

But overall, something is telling me that I will never reach 200k pageviews per day so I don't really need to worry much.



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Lynne
Yes Cristian, that's my thing as well. I doubt I will ever reach such awesome traffic that I will need to find a paid service for tracking and if I do I think I will be very pleased. How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services



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selenaly
I think GA is the best. it gives me specific figures every minute. i also know this site: http://siterank.me. it also gives me these information and others like similar web, history of development, etc.



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TommyCarey
Hey selenaly,

Yeah Google Analytics is definitely awesome if you have a website that gets less than 200k page views per day, like most of us. But if you have a monster website, like seocheckout, you would need to look for a paid option since Google Analytics doesn't provide their free service over the 200k page views.

I've never heard of siterank.me but I'll check it out How to track your visitors and pageviews - Paid and Free Services


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Hey selenaly,

I think you read my post wrong. I'm talking about websites and services that help you track your traffic. I'm not talking about a website that shows you how much traffic a different website is getting.



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Webguy2024
Google analytics is my go to for all of my sites. I have looked a Clicky in the past and it looks robust in many areas. However, I really like free! I currently don't need the paid service even if I go over the page views allotment. I can project data based on a 200K page view sample size. It it started getting to 1M page views I would consider a paid service.



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Corzhens
Thanks for sharing this information. Even if this subject is mainly for webmasters perhaps it is time for me to learn because I will have my own site in the future and I would probably need this tool. Sometimes I am discouraged by the too much technical terms and activities involved in maintaining a website because I am not a technical person. But I know that we continue learning otherwise we stagnate.



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DenialSom
Tools like Google Analytics and Piwik Analytics can be good for General data about your visitors. Such a tool as https://www.pageview.com/ helps you track and record the user session and evaluate the usability of your site, find errors



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HenryNine
I bumped into this discussion when I was looking for ways to place analytics tracking code onto service description pages here on seocheckout. I typed into Google's search bar the phrase, "How to Place analytics tracking code onto a Seocheckout Service Page," and I was led straight to this discussion by the search engine. I still don't know whether that is possible or even if its acceptable at all by this community's staff.

Anyways I believe Cpanel Based tracking software(The Likes of AWStats) should be the way to go, the only problem being that those services have very poor tracking features, and that keeps Google analytics the undisputed King of the tracking world. I don't think I will be moving to any paid tracking service soon. I shall have to stick to my old google guys.



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AmandaSwon
Now there are many ways to get data about your users on the site. Depending on your goals and the marketing tools you use, you will use different services. Google Analytics is an example of a complete set for almost every site that provides a lot of data about your users. Over time, you will need CRM systems, Call Tracking, and other tools for recording user sessions to get complete data about all actions. Usually my clients require full reports, via Data Studio, or good summaries from an Adwords account to track performance. By the way, the reporting like a pro article can be very useful in this



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