You start by browsing for a picture of your website from your computer. This picture should be less than one 1MB and either in jpg. or png. formats. After you have selected the picture of your website, click ‘Heat map.’ This will take a few seconds to load.

You will then see the same screen shot you uploaded, just with various colors on it. Click (the magnifying glass with the flame) to enlarge the image.

So what do all of these numbers, lines, colors and circles mean?

The number shows the order in which a persons eyes move, with the lines representing that movement. The colors show the quantity of interest. If the color is bright blue, there is minimal interest. If the area if bright red then it is a main focal point. The circles resemble the size of the focal points.

Features:

• Generates visual heatmap for uploaded images.
• Save created heat map onto your computer.
• Ability to zoom and change the opacity of the picture.
• Helps you find weak and hot spots in your website design.
• Free, and no need to sign up.
• Premium accont with more features is also available.
• Similar tool: CrazyEgg.

Check out Feng-GUI @ www.feng-gui.com (via Ben Lang, by Alex Ainsberg)

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The counter starts counting visitors as soon as it is added to the site. Clicking on the counter bring up live overview of visitor. View visitor profiles by county, check visitor statistic over time, visualize data on graphs, see forecasts and pageviews.

See sample counter below:

Features:

• Free visitor counters for website or blog.
• Simile and easy to embed.
• Customize counter in terms of design, color and font.
• Shows detailed overview of your visitor statistics.
• Similar tools: 99counters, Amung.us, FlagCounter and FeedJit.

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There is nothing to install, you simply sign for a free account, get the trackin code and insert it into a template file of your website.

When it comes to reportsing, reports available for the last day, month, 60 days and a full year.

Features:

• Free wtraffic anayltics service for your blog or a website.
• View detailed information about your visitors (browser, OS, screen resolution).
• See where most of your visitors are coming from.
• View referring URLs (blogs, search engines) and search keywords.
• View most popular pages of your website.
• Quick and easy to get started. Nothing to download or install.

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Visualize your traffic stats (top referrers, daily visitors, traffic by region etc) without leaving Wordress. Moreover, if you have a MailChimp account, you will be able to view the traffic coming from your email campaigns and track your mailing list growth alongside your traffic stats.

If you don’t use Wordpress for blogging, plugin is also available for Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms. To use it, first you need to install the plugin in your Wordpress and then associate it with your Google Analytics account from plugin settings.

Watch a video tour below:

Features:

• View your Google Analytics stats from your Wordpress dashboard.
• Subscribe to MailChimp’s email marketing services to track the performance of your email campaigns on your site traffic.
• Plugin available for Wordpress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and Drupal blogging platforms.
• Install it in your Wordpress and associate with your Google Analytics account.
• Plugin is free. MailChimp account is not required.

Check out  Analytics 360 @ www.mailchimp.com/wordpress_analytics_plugin/

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Mon.itor.us monitors your website from multiple locations and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS. Besides these, it has internal monitoring features like keeping an eye on computer/server memory, CPU, etc. with an installable agent. It also features real-time visitor monitoring.

Features :

• Online website monitoring and tracking service.
• Monitors your website and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS.
• Provides information helpful in maintaining high uptime of the site.
• Internal monitoring features.
• Also features visitor tracking capabilities.
• Similar site: Site24×7.

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The total number of visitors from each country is also shown next to the flag. Clicking on the counter reveals additional information such as visitor disitrbution on a pie chart, flag map and total page views for each country.

Check out sample counter below

Features:

• Get flag counter widget for your website.
• Customize your counter: number of flags shown, flag columns, title, background color, text color and border color.
• Free and very easy to add.
• Similar counter tools: 99counters, Amung.us and FeedJit.

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The number of visits constitute the total number of visitors to the site per day and not unique visitors, which means that repeat visitors in a day could be included as different visitors. Hence the estimate numbers are likely to be a bit bloated.

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The main advantage of Statbrain is that it’s a simple and quick way to check the traffic rankings for any site. There are many other analytics tool to take care of in depth stats analysis so if you’d like to have a quick glance at the total traffic to a site, this should be the ideal tool. You might be also interested in similar site called QuarkBase. We covered it earlier.

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You get the following analytics with a free cligs account.

• Total number of hits
• Referral statistics
• Recent mentions of the clig itself on twitter
• Recent links (mentions) of the clig on blogs
• Recent web links to the clig
• Recent mentions of the destination URL on twitter
• Recent blog links to the destination
• Recent web links to the destination
• Delicious bookmarks of the destination
• Total number of links to the destination

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The counter will display the number of users currently visting the website, total for the day, and total numbers of visits since it was installed. There are nearly 20 counter templates, in different size and colors, so there is a good chance you’ll find something to match your site’s theme.

If you don’t like any of the available templates then you can quickly create one on your own. And as can be seen in the screenshot below it’s really easy to create one.

There is one thing you should be aware of though. If you plan to add the counter to your website then make sure that it appears on every page or it won’t be able to count all of the visits.

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Quick Feature Overview

• Find out where your visitors come from, how long they stay, how many of the come back, what browser / operating system they use, etc.
• Visualize visitors on pie charts, bar graphs and more.
• View visitors by source: search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.), website referral, advertising, etc.
• Compare traffic over different time periods (select any date range you want).
• Site Overlay: Excellent features that lets you visualize importance/activity on every link on your website/blog. (no download required).
• Conversion Tracking: Measure the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns and identify top performing webpages.
• Complete integration with Google Adwords.
• Schedule personalized email reports.
• Multi-Lingual: available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Russian
• and lots more …

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That’s how amung.us will look on your website (this one is ours by the way).

Amung.us Features/Services

1. View a list of pages people are currently reading (incl. the number of readers on each page).

2. View how many people were simultaneously on your site, for any given month/day/hour.

3. Visualize current website visitors by geographical location.

To get started just copy the following code to your blog/website template file.

<a href=”http://whos.amung.us/show/ng9qspzu”><img src=”http://whos.amung.us/widget/ng9qspzu.png” alt=”hit counter” width=”81″ height=”29″ border=”0″ /></a>

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W3Counter Features

• Monitor traffic stats updated in real-time.
• View who is online right at the very moment.
• Content Distribution: see which pages are most popular, and which your visitors choose to leave from.
• Traffic Sources: see what websites and search terms bring you the most traffic.
• Get to know your visitors: see where they come from, what browser and operating system they use, etc.
• Visualize traffic in an easy-to-read graphs.
• Get daily/weekly/monthly traffic summary by email or RSS.
• Make stats private or public.
• Try w3counter now (no login required). Some features are disabled in the demo.

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• Widget 1. Live User Arrival and Departure reports (Updated every minute).
• Widget 2. Life Traffic Map (Updated every minute). Maps last 100 visitors to the website.

Feedjit Widget

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