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This is a script that helps collect stats about visitors to a site in real-time.
Stats Counter Script offers you a configurable web tracker and detailed real-time web stat collector script. This will help you analyze and monitor all visitors to a given website. The script package collects tracking information through Java Script or Imagetag. The data then is stored in a text based log file. You could use the MySQL database to store the data too. Administration is easily done; you would be able to turn on or off various counters, count the entries collected in them. It is possible to have a count view or a percentage view. The counts will preclude any of your own visits through detection of cookies. When analyzing the stats, you can use different time horizons to generate a summary of the counts. Exclusion of IP addresses also is possible by defining wild cards.
The types of data you can get is fairly extensive. These include visitors total, visitors today, visitors yesterday, visitors this month, visitors last month, maximum, daily average, count hits/page impressions, average hits/page impressions, trends for months and years etc. What kind of OS and/or browsers were being used by the visitors are also determined by the package. The country of origin of the visitor by IP analysis is also established. Thus if you need to do analysis of your visitors for the sites you have set up, this is a handy tool. Particularly during initial setting up, you need to do a lot of experimentation to determine the optimum strategy. The data derived from this stats package, after every change made, can tell you what is working and what is not.
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