How to Track Website Visitors
What tracking visitors actually involves, which numbers to start with, how to install a tracking script and the mistakes that make your data unreliable.
Useful when you launch something and want to know, within minutes, whether it's working.
In development
When you send a newsletter, publish a post or start a campaign, you want to know if people are arriving. Standard reports usually show yesterday's numbers, and by then the moment to react has passed.
A broken link in an e-mail, an ad pointing to the wrong page, a website that went offline in the middle of a promotion. Without a live view, these things are often discovered by a customer, not by you.
The real-time view will show active visitors, the pages they are on and where they came from, updated continuously. It is made for quick checks rather than deep analysis: open it, confirm things are working, close it.
How many people were on the site in the last few minutes.
Which pages are open right now.
Whether visitors are coming from search, ads, e-mail or social networks.
Confirm that a newsletter or campaign is sending people to the right page.
Real-time monitoring is in development and depends on the tracking script, which will be released first.
What tracking visitors actually involves, which numbers to start with, how to install a tracking script and the mistakes that make your data unreliable.
A step-by-step method to investigate a traffic drop, starting with tracking problems and moving on to sources, pages, search changes and your own recent actions.
For agencies, freelancers and companies with several brands. How to organize monitoring across many websites without losing track of what changed on each one.
Create your account and register the websites you want to watch.