While surfing the internet I came across some useful tools for webmasters
, among those are google analytics which gives you the information about the number of visits you had from the time you have adopted the google analytics. Google supplies you with a code which you need to paste it just before the body tag (). And after placing the code it will google analytics shows the details of the visits ranging from number of visits from the particular country, keyword used to reach the website and so. There are many other free tools to use like firestats.cc, piwik etc. By using analytics you can know who are the prospective visitors from which part of the world they are visiting your web page.
You can know from which web page the customers are mostly moving and you can design the website accordingly. This has improved me a lot in tracking my websites performance. Getclicky.com is another alternative to google analytics which gives tracking details. I would recommend you to use try once getclicky.com to track your website. If you are using cpanel for hosting your website then awstats is available by default in it.
Awstats is also a very good tool, you need not paste any code in your web pages. The program itself tracks all the visits to your website and shows you in the graphical way. The particular word used to reach your page.
There are many more paid programs to anylize your websites. Such as
ewebanalytics.com
yahoo analytics
opentracker.net
my web analytics rating :
google analytics *****
getclicky.com ****
yahoo analytics ****
You just have a try at these features and get amazing results for your website.