In our forum we ask people to participate in our poll and reply to the thread with more details as to how they heard about our website. Is there a more efficient way to track our traffic though? ...as far as, what websites or search engines/keywords they are using to find us? I think it will be helpful to see where most of our traffic is coming from so we can focus our efforts better.
How do you track traffic?
- Thread starter Sharon
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If I am not mistaken, Google Analytics tracks SOME things but not all...
When I was managing a public community, we had this thread that had "Where did you find us" and most of the members responded (It's an easy post count, most people take advantage of that) so I really never thought about anything else. However I do think there should be a better way to see where your traffic is coming from. Maybe one of these wonderfully "paid" softwares will come up with something. :lol:
When I was managing a public community, we had this thread that had "Where did you find us" and most of the members responded (It's an easy post count, most people take advantage of that) so I really never thought about anything else. However I do think there should be a better way to see where your traffic is coming from. Maybe one of these wonderfully "paid" softwares will come up with something. :lol:
Google Analytics will give you information regarding what websites people came from or keywords they put into a search engine. I have it installed on SeekingSocial and my blog. It works pretty well and from the research I did before installing it the accuracy of the program is pretty good. Additionally though, I use AwStats through CPanel. It really just gives numbers, however, like the number of unique visors, hits, etc. Unfortunately, no insightful information about how people got to my site.
Well, since almost all of the people already said Google Analytics, I'm going to provide something different. If you're using Cloudflare for either your website or forum then you could take advantage of their apps section. In there you'll find Clicky Web Analytics which can be an alternative to Google Analytics (you can also use G. Analytics in CF). It'll provide good statistics for your visitors mainly because traffic passes through cloudflare and the app analytics that you'll activate will be there when the traffic moves toward your website.
I think the poll is a good idea but as people have said above you should use Google Analytics.
@ThatFox I didn't know CloudFlare tracks the traffic? Thanks for telling us! 😀
@ThatFox I didn't know CloudFlare tracks the traffic? Thanks for telling us! 😀
b.tadman21
Acquaintance
Google Analytics, Compete, KISSmetrics, Open Web Analytics, Clicktale many tools available for tracking traffic.. But google analytics is best..
geeksremote24-7
Familiar Face
Google analytic is the best tool to track your website traffic.
Openstudio
Reputable
Google Analytics is the best 🙂
and I am lucky because my web host has an integrated statistics tracker that does a lot!
and I am lucky because my web host has an integrated statistics tracker that does a lot!
Google Analytics tracks information from Your site so detailed, You can spend hours comparing and analyzing Your website stats. I am sure everybody are using Analytics service by now, however if You don’t use it – You should go to their site and take video tour, explaining You everything much better than I could.
Openstudio
Reputable
@Cierra no it is another one.. but I think saying the name would be spam 😛
KnownSyntax
Resident
I mostly use AwStats behind the scenes, along with CloudFlare to track location based (in a better format) along to see if they are repeated guests or not (can tell by cache performance across a given timespan).
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