Where are my web site visitors and traffic coming from?

where are site visitors coming from Today’s big question is, do you know where you website visitors and traffic are coming from?

In case you’re wondering why is it important to know, well it’s really simple. Imagine if you’re an owner of a music CD store. Would you be interested to find out what sort of music your customers are most interested in? There’s no harm in knowing a little more about the people who walk into your store.

Same goes for your website. What are your web visitors looking for when they reach your site. Do your website have the information that they are looking for? Maybe yes, maybe no. But in order to find out, you firstly need to be able to track where your site visitors are coming from. These are some common questions:

Which country do they come from?
What did they search for in order to reach your site?
How many visitors are currently surfing your site?
How long did the spend surfing the pages on your site?
How did they reach the site? Via search engine or email recommendations?

These are some common questions that a website stats tracker can help to answer.

But you may ask, even with answer to the above, what can I do with it?

I will provide one example – from my own experience.

One of my sites was getting some traffic from the search term “Brazilian Wax” and most of the traffic comes from images.google.com. Occasionally the site gets some searches for Brazilian Wax DIY, but my post doesn’t have any steps and info for a DIY.

So what the website stats tracker is telling me is that people are searching for Brazilian Wax DIY but my site does not have that piece of information. The smart thing to do next is to write something related to how people can do their very own brazilian wax.

See how the stats just helped me figure out what sort of information I should provide for my site visitors.

There are many more ways to use the information provided by the site stats tracker, but I’ll leave it to you to explore.

So your next question is, what site stats tracker software should you use?

There are many out there. Some require you to pay up while some is free. For me, I always use this free one called Site Meter.

SiteMeter Basic offers a FREE, easy to install tool for sites to better understand who’s visiting their site, where they are coming from and where they go to leaving your site.

I use SiteMeter for all of my sites, whether it’s a plain html file, on a Wordpress site or even a Joomla enabled website.

The information it provides is a sort of business intelligence which helps me make decisions related to the sort of content I should put into my site.

Are you tracking your site today? If yes, what tool do you use?

If you aren’t try to check out SiteMeter! Any questions or comments, feel free to ask me. I use Site Meter on all of my sites

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Comments (46) Posted in Web Traffic

46 Responses to 'Where are my web site visitors and traffic coming from?'

ringcentral - November 18th, 2009 at 8:15 am
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structured settlement payments - November 19th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Thanks for posting. You put’s up very nice questions.carry on~.
CrystalQ - November 19th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Is this better than GA? I am using that at the moment, but this looks quite good. I also use stats counter(free) which also provides some pretty accurate stats.
Web Development Company - November 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Thanks for your informative post about Website traffic and Site Meter. but I use only Google Analytic Tool for my Website.
optima - November 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Google Analytics is the best free website traffic analyser
pavankumar - November 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I would say Google Analytics is the best way to know about your visitors, and do SEO. Its a perfect store to do manythings. The list you gave is also pretty useful.
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Thanks for letting me know about the importance of website analyzer. These points are absolutely rocket science for me. Anyway thanks for sharing the information.
garage cabinet - December 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Nice blog post. I got to know the importance of the website visitors and their details after reading this post. Thanks for sharing.
Jackie - December 19th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Why to look somewhere else while we have Google Analytics.
Edina real estate - December 20th, 2009 at 3:37 am
I’ll definitely look more into it some other time but for the time being I’ve bookmarked it. I’ve got a question which is not entirely related with Site Meter. How can we find out that how much traffic is coming from a specific keyword and from the search engine (Google) ? Does the site meter detects from the website link Google has of their own with every site search ?
bankowned - December 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Google Analytics is the best way to know about your visitors, and do SEO. Its a perfect store to do manythings.
strasssteine - December 24th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I use google analytics. There you will see all perfect on the map overlay
fishing clubs - December 29th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Thanks for letting me know about this service. I have been looking for a way to track my visitors for a long time, now.

I am definitely signing up.
kids boot camp - January 7th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
I do also use Google Analytics it is more reliable and great tool to know viewers and visitors are from with it’s lot of uses also.
tommy - January 8th, 2010 at 9:15 am
combine site meter and google analytic that’s completely perfect way. especially for affiliate marketer and adwords player.
Jonathan - January 9th, 2010 at 2:19 am
I use google analytics on all my sites, its free and shows results from each region on a map.
Get Ex Back - January 10th, 2010 at 4:17 am
I always use statcounter to figure out where are my traffic coming from. It is crucial to keep track!

-Kai
Sam - January 11th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Great post. I think sometimes people just get lazy and focus on the raw traffic number. But I think you can really get some valuable information from digging deeper. Cheers.
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Best Home tool - January 31st, 2010 at 3:35 am
I’m used to use Google analytic tool to determine my visitor. But Sitemeter seems offering better features
ria irish - January 31st, 2010 at 5:35 pm
i’m using google analytics. would you recommend site meter over analytics? what would be the advantage over the other?
Jack Chase - January 31st, 2010 at 5:47 pm
If your blgo is well monetised then make sure to bring the profit element into consideration when studying your traffic anaylsis
Alec Smith - January 31st, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I have heard first time about site meter but great sharing sure i will try it
Jimmy Ericsson - January 31st, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Thanks for this blog man. I will look into it!

//J
haberrus - January 31st, 2010 at 9:34 pm
uselful, thank you so much.
watch streaming movies free - February 3rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Nice informative post but how will you compare Google Analytic with SiteMeter ?
PHP Hosting - February 3rd, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Reviewing from where the traffic to a website is coming from is a very important aspect of working online.It gives you are fair idea of whether the efforts that you are talking in building your online business is going in the correct direction.You need to accordingly make changes.Search engines now have given importance to geo location searches.Hence it is important to analyze if you are getting searched from your targeted area on the globe.
Arch Supports - February 5th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Nice way to track the visitors.
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thanks for the tool. i would love to try this tool soon.
Make Web Money - February 11th, 2010 at 2:28 am
I use Google Analytics for my sites currently. I am curious how SiteMeter stacks up and what it might offer differently than Google.
Boynton Beach - February 11th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Google analytics and webmasters are the best tools out there.
andrei - February 11th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
this is a cool way of tracking the visitors!
Tsvetan - February 17th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Thanks for this great share man. I would enjoy using it
industrial pumps - February 19th, 2010 at 2:54 am
It’s a really good idea to monitor your search traffic and write content based on what people are searching for. I’d prefer to use Google Analytics instead of Sitemeter though, but maybe its just a matter of personal preference.
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50plusmatch - February 25th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Thanks. Google analytics is great, and a lot of people now about it. But most people don;t look at the webmastertools.
verleiden - February 25th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Sure I love these tips and advice. But as a marketeer which depends 100% on SEO, I hope not to many people are starting to analyze.
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Albert M. Kramer - March 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Hey all, on my blog I use 2 web analytic tools google and goingup and I noticed a difference on website visitors and traffic, google is showing me smaller numbers. Why?
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I think web2.0 social platform like twitter, facebook e.t.c. are the best platform for getting the traffic on your website.