Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
February 27, 2009 by Michael Alexander · 2 Comments 
Six Revisions, a blog for Web designers and developers, has a good piece called “15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity.” Web metrics give you insight into how many people visit your site each day, where they came from, what they were looking for, whether you succeeded in achieving your goal — a purchase, download, registration or other objective. There’s a lot more to it than that, which is why I’m pointing you to the post.
Jacob Gube, who writes Six Revisions, lists the obvious Web metrics tools such as Yahoo! Site Explorer, Alexa and Technorati. Blogging Central. There were several on the list that were new to me. Curiously, Google Analytics wasn’t on the list — maybe because it’s a given you’re going to know about that one.
While I’m on the subject, TechRadar.com, picked up a feature article that first appeared in the U.K.’s .Net Magazine, Issue 181 called “Complete guide to Google Analytics.” Brett Crosby, group manager of Google Analytics wrote that one.
Central. There were several on the list that were new to me. Curiously, Google Analytics wasn’t on the list — maybe because it’s a given you’re going to know about that one.
Dito. I learned some things from this post also. I figured the same thing about google analytics. Probably a given that you dont really have to mention it, but depending on the website you might consider using a different form of tracking. For example with a blog you should be using something that keeps track of all the stats for the banner ads your running. Google analytics dont support some of those features as well as they could.