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  • 26-09-2009 6:21pm
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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    I've tried to search for other threads on this topic but couldn't find them.

    I have a simple website (html/css). I used to find out who had visited from the server log on filezilla. This stopped being updated about a week ago.:confused:

    I don't know too much about computers and such. Can anybody recommend a simple method/program for basically finding out who is visiting my site, etc.

    thanks,

    Bill


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    p
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    Contact your web hosting company, this is really something they can only help you with. :)


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    Totally not helpful.


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    skelliser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    google analytics is good.
    www.google.com/analytics/
    its pretty straight forward to install


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    MrBill wrote: »
    Totally not helpful.
    The reply was totally, like, helpful.
    We cannot fix the issue for you - your hosting company can.


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    daymobrew wrote: »
    The reply was totally, like, helpful.
    We cannot fix the issue for you - your hosting company can.

    :rolleyes:

    I meant contacting the hosting company is, like, totally not helpful.


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    skelliser wrote: »
    google analytics is good.
    www.google.com/analytics/
    its pretty straight forward to install

    Thanks for that. Installed so now I just sit and wait.


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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    MrBill wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    I meant contacting the hosting company is, like, totally not helpful.
    Why didn't you say that?
    What did they say when you reported the issue?


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    Well I called and it was just some kid talking to me in webmaster gibberish. I don't really know much about that stuff.

    Google Analytics worked for about an hour and then it stopped. :(


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    whizgremlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭whizgremlin


    Hi MrBill,

    Lol @ the kid ....

    Here is the answer to your problem - Statcounter gives you real time results of who has visited your website, from where, what country and their referring URL. You basically sign up, copy the code they give you and put it anywhere on ur index.html page i.e. your homepage of ur site, save the changes and sit back and you'll see who's been visiting!

    Link: http://www.statcounter.com/

    Hope this helps you out!


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    There is no shame in saying you don't understand. No point wasting your time calling if your only going to "uh huh" your way through the call and be as clueless at the end of it as you are when starting.


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    Right, seems like GA is updating once a day and that should be good enough for me.


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    MrBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭MrBill


    How detailed can you get with google analytics concerning your visitors? Is the number of visits from each town/city the best you can do?

    Is it possible to get IP info and which parts of town (like where in Dublin) or would you have to use a different method?


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    RoadKillTs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭RoadKillTs


    Is it possible to get IP info and which parts of town (like where in Dublin) or would you have to use a different method?

    Yes you can. All you have to do it click on the visitor's Ip and it will tell you exactly where the person is. Right down to the number of the house.
    It will also show you a list of open ports just incase.


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    You can also look at something like Woopra which gives realtime stats


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