[Barnum4000]

I'm curious what people use to look at how many views they get on their site, do you your own code to view visitors or do you use another method like a website to be able to track views and from what nation the visitor came from?

[Genesis]

I check awstats in cpanel with my shared hosting accounts. I haven't done it in a while, but if you check cpanel there is always some links that you can use to check the traffic and who your visitors are. I'm sure one can do the same with a VPS by just fetching the stats from awstats.

Just had a quick search and found this tutorial for setting up awstats from the command line:
https://www.howtoforge.com/community/thr...ine.49603/

[SeductiveWalrus]

Well I never actually tracked traffic, but I did use google for authentication and counted how many members I had. This was very basic, of course, but it gave me all the insight I wanted so I don't know why I'd ever make a big fancy analytics system.

[GigaGreg]

Google Analytics works well for me and from that I can gather a lot of interesting information about the users/visitors of my sites.

[hartiberlin]

Is there something better than AWStats or Google Analytics ?
I find both tools too cumbersome ...
Is there an easier Wordpress plugin that tracks hits and refferer to my Wordpress postings and pages
and displays it in the Dashboard of my Wordpress installation ?
E.G. Google Analytics is way too complicated in my view and you really need to study it first to get it setup right....

[Genesis]

Is there something better than AWStats or Google Analytics ?
I find both tools too cumbersome ...
Is there an easier Wordpress plugin that tracks hits and refferer to my Wordpress postings and pages
and displays it in the Dashboard of my Wordpress installation ?
E.G. Google Analytics is way too complicated in my view and you really need to study it first to get it setup right....

I'm almost certain every WordPress plugin that has to do with traffic or SEO uses Google Analytics. Unfortunately Google "owns" traffic to a great extent simply because every one wants to get a high grading from Google.

[Peter]

I used Google Analytics many years ago. Nowadays I only use Awstats, but unfortunatly it doesn't seem to work correctly after the "Multi Cache System" was re-installed.

Update: Now it is working again ...

[xdude]

I used Google Analytics before for all traffic stuff but Now Google Webmaster tools give you a basic idea about everything you need to know. If I need to dig little deeper then I goto Google Analytics but in most cases Webmaster tools are more than enough. Google Analytics  is good if you use PPC advertising for your site.

[iwsm]

if you want track users and pay some money for it , alexa is the best and professional tracking tools but if you want free plan of tracking users you can use Google Analytics.

[farhang321]

The google analytics statistic will be a good choice as a comprehensive and powerful system. But a good alternative to google analytics is Piwik.

Piwik is a free and open source web analytics program written by an international developer team running on a PHP / MySQL web server.

With this app, you can view statistics on one or more sites and visit reports for analysis.

Since September 2015, Piwik has been used by nearly 900,000 websites (1.3% of all websites) and translated into more than 45 languages.

[frischid]

Thank you very much for this hint! Piwik looks great. Piwik is renamed to https://matomo.org/  (Proof: see on heise.de). They now sell even the hosting of matoma as a package but you can still install matoma on your own server for free, or even use the new Wordpress plugin (beta).