December 27, 2006 - A New Tool for Your Website or Blog - StatCounter

I've been checking out a new tool on this blog - StatCounter.  Very nice!

From their web site:

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

It's extremely simple to use, and there are lots of Statistics collected. From just a few months of use so far, I've learned

• About 200 people per day read this blog (fewer on weekends).
• The most popular article (by far) is "QA and Testing Interview Questions (and some answers)"
• Most people arrive here from SQAForums.com.  A few get here via Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL Search, or Windows Live (using some unexpected keywords on occasion).
• Some people stay for just a few seconds.  But about 40% stay for more than 5 minutes.
• Most people who visit are either from the United States or India.  But so far, visitors have arrived from:
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Estonia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Islamic Republic Of Iran
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Korea
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malaysia
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia and Montenegro
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Viet Nam
• Most visitors still use IE 6, some are using IE 7, far fewer use Firefox, Opera, Camino, Safari.
• 1024 x 768 is used by half the visitors.  A fair amount use higher resolutions, and a few lower resolutions - even as low as 640 x 480!
• Most visitors use Windows XP.   Some use Windows 2003 or 2000.  A few still use Windows 98 and ME.  A few more use OS X.  Very few use Linux.  Recently, I've seen some Windows Vista use occurring.
• Almost everyone has Javascript enabled.

StatCounter.com offers this service free, if you limit yourself to just 500 log entries.  You can learn a lot from 500 entries, but if your web site has a lot more traffic, you'll want to upgrade to a larger quota (for a fee).

Check them out at http://www.statcounter.com/