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SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:00 am Post subject: Web Site Monitoring

What do you use to monitor visits to your website? I just use what my web host provides and it does not give me the detail that some of you have been listing in the hits thread.
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Spacegypsy · Guest

Hi Elaine - I am with GoDaddy, and they supply a thing called "Traffic Facts" I don't know if it's integral. or whether one can purchase it outside GoDaddy.

anthonyVO · 14th Avenue Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 1470 Location: NYC

Anything that's not provided by your webhost will prove to be rather costly and requires some maintenance.

In any case - try searching sourceforge.net for a free solution.

I use Webtrends.

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allensco · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:23 pm Post subject:

Elaine, my webhost offers Webalizer with ALL their hosting accounts. It's pretty detailed.

Art · Guest

I have a pretty good counter. The free version tells you the addresses of the last 20 visitors, the pages the last 20 referred visitors came from (which are often search engines, where you can see what they actually searched for; you can also click the link and see the actual Google or Yahoo or whatever page they got when they searched). Also shows charts of last 20 months, most popular referrers. I like it.

Go to my web site, http://voices.cc, and click on the little black and purple square at the bottom, like a planet or something. That will show you the up-to-date count on my site, but there's a link that says something like "get your own free counter." You can get it up and running on your site in five minutes, if you can paste in a little code on your web page.

Art · Guest

Try it without a comma, works better

http://voices.cc

Or here's the counter link directly:

http://extremetracking.com/open;sum?login=voicescc

billelder · Guest

My webhost has something named CPanel (which is very common host software) that has Web/FTP stats. It offers Webalizer and other programs that allows me to see stats about how many and the most popular places on the site.

JeffK · T-Shirt Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 276 Location: Oz

If you have an ip address from your visitors you can get an idea of where they are located etc. Cool stuff cool

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http://www.dnsstuff.com/

Bailey · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

IP address search site...
http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html
Most of the time, all it will tell you is the IP and geographical location of the IP. Not necessarily the "users" location.
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Jeff McNeal · Guest

I've been experiencing freakishly high access to one of my demo files for the last week. So much in fact, that I have (temporarily at least) removed the file from my site to conserve bandwidth.

For some strange reason, people have been searching various engines for DragonBallZ video content and have been flooding into my site to download the TV commercial I did for the game in August.

Just this past week alone, 511 unique users from all over the world hit that file 815 times, sucking up 34 gigs of bandwidth. Just today alone, since Midnight, the file has been downloaded 56 times in less than 8 hours. Hey, it's nice to have a popular download, but this was getting ridiculous! I am puzzled by the sudden appeal... I can't seem to find any referring links that would explain it, either. Just lots of referrals from various search engines in places like Hong Kong, Denmark, France, Korea, etc. It's weird.

Oh, to answer the original question, I'm using an application called Access Probe that installs in the cgi-bin directory of my site. It's quite good, and you can try it before you buy it with a free download:

http://www.accessprobe.com/

Spacegypsy · Guest

Hi Jeff -

Yes, nice though it is to have visitors, if they don't lead to business it is a waste of bandwidth.

I had to do a similar thing with my comedy videos and take them down, because I had titled them according to the pieces of script they represented. Yahoo video search was sending people my way who were searching for the words "Victoria" and "toilet" and it was getting ridiculous.

Deirdre · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:33 am Post subject:

To share with some pals, I posted a sound file of one of my son's guitar concerts-- in particular a tune that was Themes from Super Mario Brothers arranged for 10 guitars.

I got "Slashdotted" or something because the demand went mental and I had to take it down.

That filepath still gets hits now and then.
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