How To Record Visitors?

[abrogard]

I have statcounter showing me how many visits I get to my web pages. I'd like a little more. I'd like to know who the visitors are.

Is this possible? Is there any information we can access and keep about people who view our pages?

Something - the IP I suppose - must be available for sure because statcounter identifies return visitors.

Does anyone know exactly what is available and how I can access and record it?

regards,

ab

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

The logs on your web server should contain all these information.

[tracyjames]

I use getclicky.com and GA (google analytics) getclicky is certainly easier to implement compared to Google Analytics and the data is dynamic compared to GA where you get reports once per 24 hours.

Getclicky allows you to deselect your own visits from appearing and you can name your visitors. This naming is not a free service (it is for the first 30 days but thereafter it s part of a paid for plan).

hope this is helpful :)

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[Brian Culburt]

The logs on your web server should contain all these information.

where can I find these logs?

Is there a third party program can read and manage these logs?

Thank you in advance.

[abrogard]

The logs on your web server should contain all these information.

where can I find these logs?

Is there a third party program can read and manage these logs?

Thank you in advance.

I find mine on my control panel page under an icon called "access/error logs".

I also use, as I said, statcounter. The interesting thing is the logs show ten communications with one of my pages and statcounter shows no contacts whatever.

I don't quite understand the logs entry because most of the entries are in pairs: a GET followed by a POST to the same IP. I suppose that's really only one page hit.

Sometimes there's a GET with no POST. That's how come I've got ten entries there.

So what I want to do it record this information for myself.

All the logs show is the date/time, the IP and the GET URL and some detail of the browser in use at the caller's end.

Here's an example:

ipolli.com 173.234.11.254 - - [08/Dec/2010:01:35:23 +0000] "GET /blog/?p=30 HTTP/1.0" 200 18270 "http://www.facebook.com/gearquest" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50"

I know how to get the IP and the date, just need to know how to get this URL - which is very interesting indeed - and then I can get it all myself and put it in my own database and do with it as I wish.

Currently I'm recording dates and IP's of those who make entries in my guestbooks. That's all fired by the 'submit' they perform.

I don't know how to catch this information when they just go there and look at my page.

I said I did - up there - I said 'I know how to get the IP...' . I was wrong. I only know how to get it if they do a submit which then first a PHP proc.

I suppose, I better try it, I could just put that PHP proc in the beginning of every page, and then as soon as a page loads it fires the proc and I get the info?

How do I get that query URL?

[simon james]

use Google analytic s its a very use full tool where you can every thing

[logoonlinepros]

Google analytic is best option for you and its free also which show you all details about your web traffic.

[merry1]

you have to use Google analytics and Google webmaster to know each and every detail of you website.

[JosephObrien]

Google analytic and Google webmaster is the right option to count traffic and visitor from which site come.....