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Understanding Web site traffic
and visitor behaviour is crucial to managing a Web site
promotion and Search Engine Optimization process. Site
statistics analysis creates an opportunity to actively manage
your Web site promotion budget and enables you to make sound
decisions about what resources are less effective to advertise
on and concentrate your on-line marketing dollars on those
delivering the best quality and target traffic. That means
that you can analyze the actual return on investment (ROI) of
your Web site promotion budget.
There are two ways of analyzing
site statistics - online counters and log analyzers. Both of
them have their own advantages and disadvantages, but none can
satisfy all webmaster's demands for comprehensive, fast and
precise statistical information. How many times have you seen
an empty image placeholder in the place where the counter
image should have been? Every time you download a page with a
counter it downloads an image from the counter server. But
what if the server is down for some time? The visitors will
not be counted for that period. But what if the counter server
crashes regularly? Besides the instability counters have the
following drawbacks:
- The counter image may not
load if the images support is turned off on user browser
- The browsers, not
supporting JavaScript will not be counted properly
- Counters cannot record
robots visits
- Counters cannot record
visitors, not allowing cookies to be set on their computers
Log analyzers, in their turn
cannot discriminate between the users working through a proxy
server and users with dynamic IP addresses. Besides, log
analyzers cannot track your permanent audience, which is very
important when waging targeted advertising campaigns.
Nowadays it is impossible to get a clear picture of your site
without handy and customizable tools for statistical analysis.
Ideally, someone at the company should be assigned full time
to analyze all aspects of site visibility on the Web, plan SEO
marketing and pay-per-click campaigns.
Site Statistics Main Features:
- Check your site
statistics
NetPromoter presents fundamentally new software for
analyzing Web resource activity - Site Statistics. The
program comprises best features of both - a counter and a
log analyzer and provides a set of additional tools for site
optimization. The software is designed for getting detailed
in-depth overview of visitor behavior on a Web site and
making decisions on improving your site navigation,
visibility, customer experience, etc. Site Statistics works
with every site - regardless of the technology used - be it
static HTML site or a dynamic ASP or PHP site and proved to
be very reliable and effective.
- Create site counter
What if, instead of using a remotely hosted counter you will
install your own one, placed on your server, working without
problems and going inoperative only if your server is down?
What if this counter is absolutely anonymous and nobody but
you will have access to the statistics, gathered by this
counter? Using Script Generator module you should only place
a small picture embedded into JavaScript code on every page
on your site that is to be counted, and the program will do
all the rest - record page requests, gather information
about visitors, pages and sites they came from and so on.
The data will be stored in the separate files on your
server, which can then be downloaded and analyzed by the Log
Statistics module.
Apart from statistics files, created by the counter, Log
Statistics module can also analyze log files of all known
formats, which can be used as a supplementary source of site
activity information. The program supports the following log
file formats: W3C Extended Log File Format, Apache Log
Format, IIS Log File Formats, NPLog - the file, generated by
the Site Statistics counter
- Check your site
indexation
The Site Indexation module of Site Statistics program allows
retrieving information on pages of your site that have been
indexed by major search engines. Possessing such information
you will be able to decide which important pages of your
site need to be submitted to search engines for indexation.
- Analyze spider routes
Site Statistics program not only tracks visitors behaviour
on your site, it also analyzes your server log files
information on spider routes and shows in the form of a site
tree how do search engine spiders see your resource. This
information enables you to get a vivid picture of your Web
site`s condition.
- Check your site rank
If your site isn't getting enough visitors, how can you
increase your site visibility on search engines? How do your
competitors cope with it?
The Top 10 Analyzer module allows analyzing search results
and finding sites that occupy top positions by the keywords
that are relevant for your site. You can parse the pages of
your competitors and scrutinize the factors that allowed
them to rank high on such search engines as Google, Yahoo,
MSN, etc. The program analyzes keyword density and weight,
displays detailed information on the keyword distribution in
the form of histograms, analyzes link popularity of you site
and your competitor sites. Using the information mined by
the program you can decide on further actions you will take
for promoting your site over the Web.
The Site Analyzer module allows downloading and analyzing
the structure of your site, saving information about all its
pages and viewing keyword density and weight statistics for
the pages of your site. The module is closely integrated
with the Log Statistics module, you can export keywords, by
which actual visitors found your site on search engines and
referers from the Log Statistics module for subsequent
analysis of the site pages. Besides, you can preview the map
of your site in the form of an interactive chart and decide
on the effectiveness of the site navigation and layout.
- Get completely
customizable reports
The reports, provided by the program allow viewing site
statistics in all possible dimensions. All reports are
conveniently grouped by types and categories to meet all
webmasters' needs. Alongside with the regular reports you
can select the information to be included into the
customized reports, which will be saved in the reports
history.
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