How to Find Out How Much Traffic a Web Page Gets

Monitoring how much traffic your web page gets is an important step of monetization.

Traffic on the Web drives advertising and sales. In the early days of the Web, the only way to know your site traffic was to use special website code, obtainable freely on the Web, which counted visitors and displayed the count on your site. Nowadays, sophisticated analytic software can give you more data in an easier-to-use package. You can also monitor traffic levels for any website through traffic sites such as Alexa without any code at all, though it only monitors data for a domain or subdomain of web pages, rather than a particular web page.

Instructions

Using a Hit Counter from Website Hit Counters

1. Go to website-hit-counters.com/ for a free website hit counter.

2. Select the format of hit counter you want to use.

3. Enter your site name, email address, and a password, then click the "Submit" button.

4. Copy the code the site gives you by highlighting the code, then pressing Ctrl and C simultaneously.

5. Paste the code into the header of your website by clicking in the code where you want to place it, then holding "Ctrl" and press "V."

Using Google Analytics

1. Go to the Google analytics web page.

2. Click "Sign up now" to create a Google Analytics account. Fill out sign-in information for your Google account or click "Create a Google Account" and input an email address, password and other form details.

3. Go to the Google Dashboard and create a new tracking profile. Fill in the domain of your website, then click "OK."

4. Copy and paste the code Google gives you.

5. Visit the "Dashboard" link to monitor your traffic. With Google Analytics you can view your traffic levels per day as well as the demographics of your site visitors, how long they stay on the site, and how they accessed it.

Tracking through Alexa

1. Go to alexa.com/

2. Type in the URL of the site whose traffic you want to access in the Search bar, then press "Enter." Alexa will display all search results for that term.

3. Click the "Get Details" button that is next to the website's name.

References

• ecommerce-guide.com: Web Analytics User's Guide