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Statistics and why bother
Advantages of a stats via a browser
The information stats provide

 

Why the need for statistics for your web site?

Marketing and promoting web sites in search engine and via links on portals can be an expensive business.

Any owner of a web site wants to know which sites are sending them the most visitors and represent best value for money.

A good statistics package will list not only referring search engines, domains, page hits, but also display any erroneous or missing pages, key words and phrases that your pages are found under, geographic information about your visitors, and more.

There are many different types of statistics packages and options.

Statistics Software

You could purchase your own software program to view your stats. This entails a fairly high initial expense and consequent upgrades over time but has advantages for owners of multiple web sites.

Statistics via a Browser

Alternatively, you could can view your stats via a browse window, just like any other web page.

We offer a stats option in conjunction with hosting that offers this facility. Because it's all available via a browser, you would also be able to check your stats when on holiday wherever you have access to the Internet.

You would also have the option of using webmail to check or send any email via your web site, from any computer anywhere.

 

 

Statistics via your browser window

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statistics for web sites

 

You will note that in the Matrix Stats shown above, a calendar is displayed so that you can view stats for specific dates, for an entire week or month.

There is also a list of options and sub menus in the menu down the left. These provide information on who has used your site, when, for how long (sessions), the most and least visited pages, entry and exit points, which images were copied, most common browsers e.g. Explorer, Netscape, referring sites etc.

The information is displayed in both tabular and graphical form so that it's easily understood.

The pages can be printed and stored. You can also download your stats files for analysis using alternative software.

 

The Referrers section of Matrix Stats

The Referring section is probably the most important to most web site owners because you can identify which search engines and sites are sending visitors to your site.

There are numerous web sites that store details of other sites as a public service at no cost, e.g. BBCi.

The Matrix Stats we provide, show all search engine referrals and web site referrals. It's quite clear from the snapshot below, which search engines perform best for this particular site. A list of referring sites would be equally clear.

 

Search Engine Referrals

search engine results

Another particularly useful aspect is knowing under which key words or phrases the site performs best, which is also displayed.

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Click here to view Matrix Stats for yourself.

Login details are:

User id: visitor
Password: visitor

This Matrix stats option is only available with a hosting package. You can however, transfer the hosting of any existing site to us if you wish to take advantage of this.

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