webpopularity

Website Popularity
How popular is YOUR website? Or any website for that matter? When we need to determine the traffic or compare hits on various websites, there are several online tool.

ENGAGEMENT MATTERS

One important caveat about popularity -- too often attention is given to getting MORE hits instead of developing better relations and business relations with the hits one receives.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We recommend [|Google Analytics] ( [|explained] )

BEYOND ANALYTICS
Some operators use a program called [|Click Tracks Optimizer], finding it works better than Google Analytics, because it allows them to examine individual links, pages and visitation across the whole site. It also gives good general reports on the top referrers and top pages during selected time periods.

ALEXA
 [|Alexa Web Search] is free and accessible to the public. I like the graphs, though there have been a few times where I have seen that the data does not correspond with Planeta traffic.

Alexa has a fairly small sampling of the Web -- with one requirement being the installation of their toolbar. Could be handy ... but many consider such a thing an invasion of privacy. For me, I can't even download the tool -- not available for Mac user.

Alexa has been criticized as being too easy to manipulate. Says one colleague: "Alexa only takes a very very small sample of the total browser population, and my rating has gone down even as our traffic has increased steadily since the sampling rate is just to small."

REFERENCES
===[|Web Traffic - Wikipedia] ===

[|AWStats]
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