Navigate
X

Find out how many visitors have visited your blog?

Any blogger starting a blog will be eager to know the actual number of visitors visited each day. If he really knows that his traffic gets increased day by day he will feel encouraged with this work. Here let’s see few of such ways to find out the traffic of a particular site.

Install a hit counter:

Hit counter is a coding that you must add it to your web page. This will counts how many times the website has been visited. There are numerous ways to implement this tool. You can either install free or paid version.

Few of such Hit Counters that is available for free are:

1. Statcounter:

This is one of the widely used hit counter to track the website/blogs/ WordPress forums with simple two line codes. You do not have to pay for various number of features like Configurable counter which shows the website’s visible and hidden visible counters, recent visitor activity in your web site, Internet service provider’s status and Visitor operating system stats, visitor browser stats, etc.

Also Read: Find out best & free images to your blog

2. Histats:

This is just the same as the above with extra number of features. It provides its members with full real time statistics of blog or website. Unlimited traffic stats retention up to ten years.

3. Gostats:

This is also a free to use and simple site for hit counter. It allows to easily embed the codes to your website or blog. Additional feature is you can also export the files or reports to CSV, HTML, XML, Excel formats.

Also Read: What you want? Traffic or Readers

4. Motigo:

This site allows you to watch the real time behavior of your visitor. Some additional features provided by the motigo.com is that they provide unlimited history, Geographical analytics, heat map, and easy to install code.

Use Google Analytics:

The search engine giant Google provides this tool. To install this you must have Google account. This provides you with more information about the visitors like their location, browser, loyalty, etc. Initially you need to sign up with Google Analytics, and give some basic information about the site you like to monitor. Google produce a tracking code which you can use it in your blog to know the status of the visits.

To know this in detail visit: Google Analytics

(Remember you can check these details only after signing in into your Gmail Account).

Also Read: Easy ways to get Adsense Account

Check Alexa:

This is one of the most reputed and trusted site for checking the actual traffic. Nowadays, a site’s quality is decided by checking its Alexa rank. Just type the site you want to look for, it will provide you with all the valuable details about your site. But the only problem here is the search results are shown only for the sites that has at least meager publicity.

To visit this site follow the below link: Alexa

Google Trends:

Google Trends is another tool just as similar as Alexa. This does not provide results in numbers (ie) it does not provide number of visitors. Instead of that, it provides graphical values about the daily visitors to your blog. This tool will be quite useful for comparing side-by-side.

The same downside as the above is it does not show up the sites that does not have popularity. Information about your site can be seen only if your site is popular with huge traffic.

Visit Here: Google Trends

Feed Compare:

This is a neat tool that allows you to check the number of RSS subscribers that a website gets. It works same as Alexa which compares the web traffics. But here, instead of that RSS feeds subscriber counts. Feedcompare.com supports comparison up to four websites or blogs and you can also generate a chart as a 24 months view.

When you move your cursor over the horizontal chart, you are able to see all sites total subscribers at any time.

At last, the Final word is, every figure is the best guess unless or until the owner of the website reveals that how much of traffic he has. But however, they are good to know about your status approximately and compare yourself with others.

Additional useful tip is, if you want to check the status of your website from the multiple services at one go, then you can better visit:

Attention Meter which offers traffic graphs from the websites like Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc. on same page.

Also Read: 20 Simple tips to get traffic to your blog/website

Glad you like this post. Don’t forget to join my newsletter to get latest updates directly through your inbox.

Sharing is Caring. So, do share this post and make it useful to others.

Nirmal Anandh M: Hi, this is Nirmal Anandh M alias Muthu Vinayagam from the "Temple City", Madurai. I am the Founder of this blog. My profession is, as a CEO in ATHIRA Web Services. It's about Work From Home Jobs, Affiliate Marketing, E-Publishing, Data Conversion and Data Entry Projects. you can connect with me @ Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest , LinkedIn, Flipboard, Medium and Youtube.

View Comments (33)

  • Hi Nirmal,

    Wonderful post indeed :)

    Yes, people use a lot of tools and plugins to find out who all visited their blogs, but there are pros and cons to using those too. For example, some people shy away from visiting blogs that have the statcounter or those that show which city you reside in, while others might make your blog heavy, and if you have them, you keep checking or get obsessed with them.

    The best is Google Analytic as that gives you the correct picture of everything, whether the visitors and what region they are from, their gender, and all such details.

    Thanks for sharing. Have a nice weekend :)

    BTW - The commentluv plugin isn't working presently.

    • Hi Mam,

      Thanks for your appreciation. Yes there are lot of tools and plugins to check the stats of our blog. Every tools and plugin have its own pros & cons. Among all other tools, Google Analytics is one of the best tool to use. The main reason behind this is, it's a product of tech giant "Google".

      You too have a happy weekend mam. Keep coming.

  • Curiosity to know the amount of traffic on your blog is obvious. You do a lot of hard work and obviously want to know if you are doing right or just wasting your time. But it is a widely given advice that you should not over-involved in just finding how much traffic you have on a given time. This habit will distract you from your regularly blogging chores. Traffic increases gradually if you consistently blog.
    But it does not mean you forget about traffic and just keep doing other blogging work. You must be fully conscious of it but should examine progress in number of visitors at a regular interval.
    Yes it is an impressive way to show your readers how many visitors you are getting on your blog. But it will work when you have huge number of traffic. Be sure when you have huge number of traffic you will be focusing more to provide them value and retain them instead of just counting their numbers as most enthusiastic newbie bloggers do.
    Thanks again for letting me some wonderful ways to know the amount of traffic on my blog. I am already using Google Analytics but now will use Stats Counter as well. Thanks a lot.

    • Hi Muba,
      Yes indeed, every blogger interested in knowing the traffic of their blog. Often involved in checking the stats of blog is really waste of time. Consistent blogging leads to grow traffic and we can also earn some decent amount. Checking the stats of blog at regular interval is the best way to manage you said, i totally agree with you.
      Glad you like this post. Google Analytics is the best and free tool to analyse our blog stats according to me. Anyway thanks for coming here. Keep coming Muba. Have a happy weekend.

  • Recently, I have found out that one of the task we bloggers do everyday is checking to see our stats counts. While it is true and very good to monitor the traffic flow of your blog, but doing it every now and then may also cause you some unnecessary headache.

    Now, I have resolved to check my stats twice a week and see what it is going on. And also have found out that among all traffic stats tools, Google analytics is still the best and one will should always use.

    Thanks Nirmal, and do have a great a day.

  • It is really very important to know the number of visitors to your website / blog...I have a wordpress blog and i check the number of visitors through the short stat plugin and through google analytics - my question - there is a disparity in the number of visitors shown by the two - which of the two are more reliable...

    • Hi Karnal Singh,

      Yes, there should be always difference between the stats of Google Analytics and others. But i prefer Google Analytics to check the stats of our blog. Because google carries clever algorithm for search, analyse, display etc... Glad you like this post. Thanks for coming and dropping a comment here. Keep reading my blog to get latest and technical updates.

Leave a Comment