What is a Great Webstat to Monitor Blog Traffic?

Hi bloggy readers,
You might know how important it is for every blogger to know about the traffic activity or webstat that happens inside their blogs. By knowing more thoroughly about the circulation of traffic that comes and goes on their blogs will eventually help them learn how to improve their blog traffic in the future. But the problem is, many bloggers are finding it hard to get the best webstat that can give them 100% accuracy of traffic performance each day, without confusing them with a complicated data.

There are lots of websites that provide the service of webstat tool on internet these days. But in this post i will narrow it down to a webstat that i am still satisfied using it until now, and that is Sitemeter.

Sitemeter is one of the best webstat for blog or website on internet. According to the site, Sitementer will provide you a comprehensive real time website tracking, complete with the counter tools that also give you an instant access to the most vital information regarding the data of your sites visitors.

1. Visit Sitemeter website to get the widget
Now visit Sitemeter website at http://www.sitemeter.com to get the widget. After landing to that site, now press the Sign up button, and then choose the FREE member account to begin using the service for free. In the future, you might want to upgrade your account to the Premium member in order to get more features.

2. Push Next button twice
After Pressing the Sign Up button, you will be brought to the new page. Just click Next twice on the pages that being presented to you.


3. Fill in the information form
After clicking the Next button twice, you will be brought to the Registration form, now complete the fields and start pressing Next button once again.


4.Press again the Next button twice (again)
Sorry to bother you with all of these pressing Next button over and over again, but i promise, this is the last time. Now press the Next button again, twice.


5. Check the email inbox
Now, go to your email inbox because you will receive a verification email from Sitemeter, which in that email contains your random username and password provided by Sitemeter webstat itself (their password is randomly chosen, you better change it with your own password when signing in to your account)


6. Go to your Sitemeter account
Inside your Sitemeter webstat account, go to Manager page, and then press Menu Meter Style to choose what Sitemeter widget style that suits with your preference. After choosing your preferred meter style, now save the change.


7. Generate the Site Meter code
Still in the Manager mode, press the link called HTML code to begin generating the widget code that later, you can embed straightly to your blog. Now find the link called Adding Sitemeter to a Blogger.com site if you are currently using Blogger blog (blogspot). In the new page, you will be given the widget code. Now copy those code snippet and paste it to the Notepad. Later, will be put inside blog widget.



After finished with signing up a new account for our blog, no let's proceed to the second phase, which is to paste the code snippet from Sitemeter webstat to your blog.

1. Go to Blogger
Now go to Blogger.com and enter to your Blogger account using your own username and password.

2. Add a new Gadget
In the Dashboard page, now go to the Layout/Design. In the Page Element, pick any place that you prefer as the best position of this widget and then click Add a Gadget. In the feature gadgets provided by Blogger, Choose HTML/Javascript and then paste the code snippet from Sitemeter to the HTML box.

3. Save the change
By pressing the Save button, you can now save the change and start previewing the result.

3 basic and important things about Sitemeter webstat you should know
Anyway, before leaving this post, there are something i must tell you about Sitemeter, especially their service.

• It is very important that the code snippet from Sitemeter webstat to be pasted inside our blog template! Well, that's because the code itself is integrated directly with the Sitemeter tool., so we cannot analyse our blog traffic through Sitemeter website if we haven't injected the code to our blog.
• The feature called "ignore visit" on Sitemeter will avoid our own visit to our blog to be counted as a traffic. This feature will record the IP address of our computer on their database, and thus will never calculate our visit as a real traffic.
• The other feature called "Privacy" will allow us to hide the traffic activity of our blog from our visitors. So every time your blog visitors press the Sitemeter webstat widget on your blog, they will be automatically brought to the homepage of Sitemeter, instead of our Statistic page. Thus, will prevent them to know about the data of our web statistic. This can be important especially for those bloggers who don't want people know that their blogs have a small traffic each day.

Okay, that's it for now about adding a webstat to our blog. If you have something to ask to me, just type your question on the comment section below and i'll try my best to give you the answer as soon as possible.