Easy to follow blogging tips for beginners on WordPress.com
Flag Counter - Statistics Web Site
About the Widget. FlagCounter counts the number of visitor and views of your site once you install their non-java HTML code in your WordPress.com blog. FlagCounter categories your visitors by country, and state or province in the case of the United States of America and Canada. When you access your account at FlagCounter, you can look up for your visitor information in countries listings, maps and charts. Beside emphasizing on your visitors’ flags, you can view charts with the total visitors and views.
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What Will Your Readers See on Your Website? FlagCounter gives three options to show your readers: a Top Countries counter, a Flag Map counter and a Mini Counter. You can customize the counters size, format, colors and information shown. The Mini Counter provides the smallest and inconspicuous counter. I use the Top Countries counter with Life & Bits.
How Do I Install This Widget on WordPress.com? Installing the Histats Counter widget on your site is simple. First, get the HTML code from their site. Second, install the code on your blog. And, you are done. Please follow the instructions below.
sitemeter Visit Detail
About the Widget. Site Meter have some paid services but also a free service. The free service is very good. You have access to a summary of visitors; details of each visitor including domain, location, operating system, browser, time, pages visited, entry page, exit page, etc.; world map; graph of visits and views for different periods. If you are crazy about stats you will have a lot of results to dig into. The site can present the data a lists or graphically.
Blog With Integrity: Life & Bits have no commercial or other relationship with sitemeter.
What Will Your Readers See on Your Website? Site Meter offers a selection of counters with or without showing the visits count. The chosen counter will display on your WordPress.com blog sidebar. One style of sitemeter counter shows here. If your visitors click the sitemeter counter they will arrive at the sitemeter website. The data they will have access to will depend on the Privacy Level you choose.
How Do I Install This Widget on WordPress.com? Installing the Histats Counter widget on your site is simple. First, get the HTML code from their site. Second, install the code on your blog. And, you are done. Please follow the instructions below.
ClustrMaps - Geographical Hit Counter
About the Widget. ClustrMaps presents the visitors to your blog or website as dots in a world map. This hit counter provides real-time information when you visit their site (once you install the widget.) ClustrMaps provides a table with a count of visitor by country which you can expand to show by state or city. You can see a list of the most recent visitors, and the total count since the widget installation and the las 24 hours. This widget helps to understand the term World Wide Web.
Blog With Integrity: Life & Bits have no commercial or other relationship with ClustrMaps.
What Will Your Readers See on Your Website? The cool thing about the ClustrMaps widget is your world map is available to your readers. Your readers will see a small version of the world map with all the dots on your sidebar. They can see the full size version when they click over the map on your site.
How Do I Install This Widget on WordPress.com? Installing the Histats Counter widget on your site is simple. First, get the HTML code from their site. Second, install the code on your blog. And, you are done. Please follow the instructions below.
Histats Real Time Stats
About the Widget. I stumbled across Histats on one of my readers website. This service offers a lot of counters to include in your blog and the most complete free real-time stats page. As many web analytic services the best counters require JavaScript codes. Nevertheless, there are a number of excellent counters from this site that will work on WordPress.com. The site provides non-java code for every counter, however not all of them will work on WordPress.com since they include embedded code that is automatically eliminated by WordPress.com. The information below lets you know which counters can be used on your WordPress.com blog. I find the greatest advantage of Histats are all the cool stats and graphics available to you about your blog and your readers.
Blog With Integrity: Life & Bits have no commercial or other relationship with Histats.
What Will Your Readers See on Your Website? In order for Histats to gather information of your visitors, you need to install a non-java HTML code in your blog. This code contains the tag needed to identify your site. What your readers see will depend on your counter choice. Histats also gives you the option to install the tracking code with your tag without any counter showing. That means your readers don’t see anything else on your site, but they get tracked by Histats. I selected the online visitor counter shown here.
How Do I Install This Widget on WordPress.com? Installing the Histats Counter widget on your site is simple. First, get the HTML code from their site. Second, install the code on your blog. And, you are done. Please follow the instructions below.
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