Everything Digital

Creating your first website can be very challenging especially if you’re doing it alone. While you struggle with your design and content, you are also faced with one terrifying question: is anybody visiting my web page at all? Everyone knows that is one valid question that you should always be asking yourself. After all, if no one visits your site, what you are doing will be pointless.

There are many ways and dozens of plugins that could help you monitor your page visits. Finding the one that fits you is no simple task. If you’re using cPanel, you’ll see Webalizer in your dashboard. Webalizer is a stats log analysis software that monitors hits, visits, referrers, and other useful data.

In Wordpress universe, there are two plugins that I think are very cool. kStats Reloaded looks very promising to me although it crashed my two websites in less than 12 hours after the installation. According to the developer, the bug has now been fixed and once a stable version is released, I’ll definitely use it on my site again.

The other plugin that I find very useful right now is Mark Challis’ Visitor Maps and Who’s Online. Features include the ability to differentiate page visits from bots, members and guests; display of city, state and country flag of visitors; WhoIs lookup, IP address identifier, the option to display the widget in your blog footer and dashboard; and a geolocation map that can be displayed in a separate page.

(Reposted from MabuhayOnline.)