Google analytics is a helpful free site to pull up your site statistics. Signing up is simple, if you already have a Google account you log in with your email and provide Google with the URL of the site you want to keep track off. Google will provide you with a code, copy this code and put it into each of your WebPages.
Now that you have created your account you are ready to log in and start analyzing! Under site usage you will find several statistics for a certain time period.
· Visits - tells you how many visits there were to your page.
· Pageviews - tells how many times the pages on your site have been viewed.
· Pages/visit - tells how many pages, on average, users view when they come to your site.
· Bounce Rate - tells what percentage of users left after viewing only one page on your site.
· Avg. Time on Site - shows how long each user spent on your site.
· New Visitors - shows what percentage of your users have not visited your site before.
When pulling up your city demographics it will show you where your visitors come from. I even had 2 visitors from Palo Alto!
This can be a fun easy tool to do on a monthly or quarterly basis.
