Statcounter rocks February 16, 2008

Statcounter, the free on-line based website statistics package just plain rocks !  Not only do you get a decent amount of statistics of different types, you get a good enough log size for free !

So how does it work ?  You add a small piece of invisible code to every page on your site that you want to record activity on and open an account with Statcounter.  I have it both on this blog and on our main websites at work and the results are fantastic – you can tell down to the city or town who is looking at your site, where they are and how they came to you … and they now have a code snippet especially for blogs.

Exicting stuff if you are in to it or your business depends on the geography of your users !

Based on the stats for my site I think I should write more posts concerning the great country of America and I might just well do that, given the shennanigans beginning to unfold in the race for the White House.

Just this morning I’ve gotten American visits from Peoria – Arizona,  Dixon – Illinois,  Nashville – Tennessee and Tuscaloosa – Alabama, as well as several more from the bigger cities.  Across the world, I’ve been hit from Tallinn – Estonia, Quezon City – Philippine Islands,  Baku – Azerbaijan and Osaka – Japan.  The Japanese visitor, obviously lost, ended up staying for 48 seconds !  See !  Tonnes of useless useful information …

So there you go – check out Statcounter and tell ‘em I sent ya !