Web Counters

To many bloggers, the amount of viewers that come in and out each day is exciting to see and there are many free counters available to anyone. There are basically two types of counters: regular hit counters and map counters. However, if you're really into getting the most accurate and detailed counters try Google Analytics. But if you just want to stay simple these are the counters that I recommend.

Hit Counters:

Bravenet- has many styles to choose from, gives you amazing statistics like unique visitors, page views, firs-time visitors, and returning visitors. Not many other counters can beat this. Plus there's a great feature that can ignore your own visits, which help you know the most accurate amount of "real" visits you get.




Don't worry there are normal kinds of counters as well, if you're the sophisticated type. And if you aren't satisfied with these, don't worry because there are many styles to choose from.







A statistic report of your site's traffic would look like this:



Map Counters:

ClustrMaps - one of popular providers of map counters, ClustrMaps gives you the opportunity to see where most of your viewers are coming from just by one glance at the map. It's accurate and speedy, and maybe one of the best maps out there. However, when you start to get tons and tons of views you're map will look a little crazy, but that's a good thing! ;) This is what it looks like:

On your blog:


It'll give you a more understandable map if you click to see details:

And there's a choice to zoom in even more to pinpoint exactly where your traffic is coming from.