Comments on: How do I judge my website statistics?

By: newilia

newilia — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:01:54 +0000

Judge your web stats by another parameter – does your website performs well for you? Does it fulfill it aim? Sales? Brand awareness? Info?
If you get leads and in queries about your product consider all your hits as a quality hits, if not – probably you don’t know what all this circus is about and better find someone who can lead you.

By: TuDiabetes.com

TuDiabetes.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:35 +0000

Hits really doesn’t tell you much: if a web page (not site, just a single page) contains 5 images, each visit to that page will count as 5 (one per image) + 1 (the page) hits. Your competitors may be talking about visits (or not), without knowing the difference.

Actually, the Search Engines do not take into account (to the best of my understanding) traffic. The factors that count are:
-Relevance of your site for the particular keyword/phrase being searched.
-Quantity and quality of links back to your site for that same keyword/phrase.

This is a very broad topic, but in general you can find most of the answers to your analytics-related questions in the book Google Analytics (link below).

By: memetrader

memetrader — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:28:19 +0000

>Also, I know that one element of search engine rankings is how much traffic your site receives. Is this ranking from a per day total or from a total traffic total?

This is a myth! Search engines do not take into account the number of times a site is visited when ranking the search results.

If they did every spammer in the world would have robotic software that simulated human searches and clicked on their sites.

If you want to know what search engines do actually take into account when ranking the search results read through this tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php

As far as site statistics go ‘unique visitors’ is only part of the story. What site owners actually need is visitors who ‘convert’.

Every website has a purpose, sell a product, sign up for a news letter, fill in a form etc., etc. The ratio of visitors to actions is called the ‘conversion ratio’ and this is what needs to be maximized.

Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ is much better than Awstats and allows you to ‘tag’ goals and measure the conversion rate.

I suggest you sign up for Google Analytics (it’s free) and monitor your site’s visitors that way.