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.
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For example, when I visited the site the graph showed the percentage success/fail of the big search engines; Yahoo!-Bing, and Google. The graph was easy-to-read and what’s more it was accompanied by a news story. This is something I found particularly fitting with Global Stat Counter – it gives the news as well as the statistics; I found this makes the graphs more credible and without them the site would just be a bunch of graphs with no real context.

There are several categories which Global Stat Counter keeps track of in the tech world. These include; Search Engine Usage, OS Usage and Browser Usage. Not only this but you can also  select where in the world you want to get statistics from. By default it is set to Worldwide but you can further narrow it down to continent or even to a specific country.

When you have found the statistic you want you can do one of three things; save it as a jpeg image; download it as an Excel document or embed it using the HTML embedding code provided.

Features:

• Keeps statistics in technology industry from around the world.
• Gets stats on Search Engine Usage, OS Usage, Browser Usage… etc.
• Stats are based on 5 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.
• Ability to select particular world region.
• View stats as line or bar graph.
• Download the graph or save as image.
• Share graphs by embedding.
• Related news headlines are included.

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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.
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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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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.
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To check the accident stats in your area, simply enter a city name, zip code and click on the “GO” button. Yhen you should see accidents in your area shown on the map marked with different color markers. Each color representing particular number of incidents. To learn more about specific accident simply click on its marker.

Features:

• Find out fatal traffic accident rates in your area.
• All accidents are presented on the map with colored markers.
• The data is obtained from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• To check your area, simply enter city name, zip code or address.
• Free. No signup needed.
• US only.

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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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