Free website monitoring tool

[ajkendall]

Hi guys,

not sure if this is the right section for this but couldn't decide where else to post it, basically i'm looking for a free website monitoring tool to record the length of time a visitor stays on a given page, can this be done?

I know there are tools for recording visitors, what keywords they use to find your site etc but can you record how long a visitor stays on a page for?

Thanks in advance for any comments

Alan

[Costin Trifan]

http://www.statcounter.com/

[Brian M]

Some server cp's(control panels) have built in stat monitors. You should check your control panel at your web server to see if you have that option. I know c-panel has them.

[ajkendall]

i have webalizer stats on the cp, tells you a fair bit of info but all that i am really after is the length of time a visitor stays on the website

thanks costin_trifan, i'll check that out

[suwan]

Why do not use Google analytics?

[Brian M]

So many ways to skin the same cat...

[webprofession]

There are many free / paid statistics.
You can install / upload it to your server.

but it will require more space.

so, you can also use third party services
like Google Analytics...

[big drunk]

statcounter is ace!

[chicgeek]

Very belatedly moved to usability.

[tobin]

Like others, I recommend Google Analytics. You do need to put javascript on all of your pages, but it's a task you'll only need to do once.

I also use awstats to parse my logs too. It's a free cgi script you can install on most hosted solutions.

[TrafficLicious]

Awstats is a basic tool would more than suffice. The thing is not to get too obsessed with these numbers but rather use them to tell you the things you need and want to know. Cheers!

[PixelPerfectDesigner]

make sure you use the NEW google analytic code

[pontarae]

Originally Posted by PixelPerfectDesigner

make sure you use the NEW google analytic code

Quite right PPD! I can install Awstats, available from my host with a single button press, but it is TOO basic.

Google Analytics is (a little) more trouble to install yet well worth it for the quality and completeness of reporting you get.

[leahmarie]

I use statcounter and google analytics both for better analysis of the site.

[Brazzell Marketing]

www.StatCounter.com is free and it does estimate length of visits. With StatCounter, the length of visit measurement only works if the vistor views more than one page. Here is a public profile for a website being monitored by StatCounter:
http://my7.statcounter.com/project/s...ect_id=3823674

In the left hand column, you can click visit length to get a pie chart breakdown. You can also click Recent Visitor Activity to see the length of visit of individual visitors, where they went, how long they spent on each page, how they got there, where they are geograpically, etc. It's all free.

[DNnetz]

http://piwik.org/ (downloadable)
http://www.sitemeter.com/ (web service)

[nancy123]

Hello everyone,

For Free website monitoring tool we can use google analytics for this we need to put the java script code on each page of website either you can use http://www.statcounter.com/

[myhdwall]

google analytics is awesome.

[atlantadentalcenter]

I've used w3counter.com it's pretty cool as it's free and gives you live visitor stats.

[Methu09]

I dont know much more about free website monitoring tool but I have used one free trial of 7 days from one site which provide website monitoring. Its nice one.