Shaun Low

One very important thing all bloggers must have is system set up to track visitors coming to their site. A stat tracking system is basically a must if you want your blog to succeed in the internet world. There are lots of free stat tracking systems provided on the interenet that will successfully help you analyze all of your incoming traffic. Here are some of the best free stat tracking tools.

1. Google Analytics

I think it’s safe to say Google Analyticsis one of the most popular stat tracking tools out there. Google Analytics is probably the most common and preferred stat tracking tool among bloggers. Google Analytics provides information for just about any stat you could want to track for a website. I highly recomend installing this on your site if you run a blog.

2. Sitemeter

I have never used Sitemeter but from what I have read it tracks your last 100 visitors to your site and gives an in-depth overview of how these visitors interact with your website. You can get your free version of site meter here.

3. MyBlogLog

I really like using MyBlogLog as a stat tracker for my site. It provides you with up-to-date info on how many people have visted your site. You can get a real-time info of how many visitors your site has received that day and you don’t have to wait until a certain time to check your stats (unlink Google Analytics). MyBlogLog also lets you know what your readers are clicking on, where your readers are coming from and what pages your readers are viewing. The free stat tracking system for MyBlogLog only provides minimal information about your blog but you can upgrade to the MyBlogLog pro which gives a more indepth view on your site. I wouldn’t recommend paying for MyBlogLog pro because Google Analytics is far more descriptive and best of all it’s free!

4. StatCounter

StatCounter is a free stat tracking tool which is also used by many bloggers and webmasters. StatCounter provides data about your last 500 visitors to your site and has the invisible mode option.

5. FeedBurner

The majority of bloggers already use FeedBurner on their sites for RSS Feeds, Feedburner also provides in-depth info about all visitors to your site. Here is what they offer:

What You Get
Lots. This initial release of site statistics includes:

• Visitor summary, detail and trends
• Page summary, detail and trends
• Referral and Search trends
• Inbound referral traffic breakdown, grouped by domain and broken out in detail
• Outbound click breakdown
• Visitor city cloud and live geographic visitor detail
• Percentage inbound traffic from search and the queries that drove the traffic
• Percentage of visitors that are new to your site today
• Browser and OS breakdown, with trend indicators
• Detailed historical traffic by page and by date

What stat tracking system do you guys use? If you have a better stat tracking tool that I missed please share it with the rest of us!

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