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


First off we have Google Analytics.

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

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:


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




OpenTracker.net isn't worth covering.

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:





My personal favorite paid service is Clicky.com

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 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: