How Many People Visited Your Site Today?

This is a critical point for analyzing the value and effectiveness of your site. Most web hosts provide a way to look at web analytics via a software package that reviews server's log files. However, in many cases, there are huge misunderstandings about what is being reported. In other words, you think 600 people visited your site today, but only 26 people visited.

Why the Discrepency?

Web Analytics software packages have different philosophies about what they are trying to record and how to present that information to a site owner. Site owners need to either understand the philosophy of the web analytics software package or they should use a package that makes sense to them.

Google and New England Webs to the Rescue!

Google has a free, hosted web analytics system called "Google Analytics". It is a fantastic system that shows clear reports that are easy to interpret. They have 80 reports available in the system for those who choose to dig in for more detail, but the dashboard report itself provides a clear answer to the old question, "How many people visited my site today?"
New England Webs uses Google Analytics on all of our client sites. We can help you evaluate if it is the right solution for you and assist with implementation - even if you have another host.