Adding a Site Meter To Your Publication
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After you've published your collection online, you might be interested to learn a little bit more about your visitors. Adding a site meter and statistic is the best affordable way to start your analysis.
This topic introduces the Site Meter
web service that you can subscribe to for free. From the SiteMeter home page:
Site Meter Can Provide the Answers!
Site Meter's comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With our detailed reporting you'll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.
Creating a SiteMeter account
Subscribing to SiteMeter is only a matter of creating an account on their web site. You can do it in a few minutes by following these steps few steps.
- Navigate to the Site Meter web site;
- On the main page, click the Sing Up button (see image below);
- Fill the form and click Ok.
Once your account is created, you're ready to add the appropriate markup in your publication template, so all the pages will benefit from this single move on your part. This is one of the great advantages you gain when you're working with templates.
Adding the counter to your publication template
To add the counter to your publication template, follow these steps.
- Login to your Site Meter account;
- Click on "manager" to open the manager options;
- Then in the Adding Site Meter to your site, click on HTML;
- Copy the markup to the appropriate location in the XSLT template.
Consulting your site statistics
- Login to your Site Meter account;
- Select the option you'd like to investigate on the left.
Adding any site statistics feature to your publication will let you know more about your users so you can serve them better in the long run. Try it now and register with Site Meter or one of the others below.
Other site statistics services
www.visitorville.com
VisitorVille applies video game principles to help you easily visualize and better understand your web site traffic statistics.
www.webtrends.com
WebTrends is the leader in enterprise-class web analytics and marketing performance management solutions for marketing professionals worldwide.
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