It is important for us to be able to track and monitor visitors to our site. This is so we can see which of our advertising campaigns, partner sites, or search keywords is bringing us the most traffic.
There are many good analytics applications available such as:
Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/)
Piwik (http://piwik.org/)
Mint (http://haveamint.com/)
Woopra (http://www.woopra.com/)
Clicky (http://getclicky.com/)
crazyegg (http://crazyegg.com/)
Each of these has different benefits and features. Some of them are free and others are a paid service.
Many people's first experience with web analytics is with Google Analytics. This is because it is free and hosted, so there is nothing needed except to get an account and add some JavaScript to our site. Let's take a look at Google Analytics and how we can use it with our site.
The first thing we need to do is visit the Google Analytics homepage. It can be found at: http://www.google.com/analytics...