Online Live Traffic Counter and Statistic Services Provider Comparison

Online Live Traffic Counter and Statistic Services Provider Comparison

You should read this post before you choose the most suitable Online Traffic Counter and Statistic Services Comparison.

As every blogger and web admin know, we need a live traffic counter to see how our blog or site looks.




We need information such as:
1. How many visitor have come to our blog.How many visitor today, this week, this month, this year, etc.
2. From where location/countries they come. If you using blog for blogging and earn money, you really need this information, cause some of ads service has policy in specific country they value.
3. From what referral they come? Is it from search engine, another blog linked with us, or another social website.
4. What they read, this is important for us to know better what topic they love (popular topic) so you can explore more detail article related to the post / keyword in that post to drive more traffic.
5. How long the stay in our blog.
6. How deep they explore our blog, this mean more page impression. You know how essential page impression for publisher to earn more money. Read this post : how google value page impression and detect a valid click.
7. From where they left our blog. If they left us from another link in our blog, you will get more detail information what link they like.
8. Etc.

So, before you choose a counter and statistic service, you should ascertain what kind of information you need to support your blog or web.
After determine what specific information you need, next you consider what service provider more suitable with your purposes.


I have some historical experience when choosing and using counter and statistic service provider. Some of them are insufficient from my expectation, other suite enough, and some are sucks. Have you read my article about GEO Counter widget from widget.net with their third site compteur.cc. if not, you should read that article. As my promise in that article, now I will post another related article, Online Counter and Statistic Services Comparison. And I will score them with my grade :

Grade 0 : It's mean sucks. I'm not recommend using this services.
Grade 1 : It's mean sufficient for minimum information.
Grade 2 : It's mean fit for intended purpose to maintain general information for your web/blog statistics.
Grade 3 : It's mean best services with comprehensive information. I'm recommend to use this services.

Before continue, I should remind you that service providers below just various that I know. So, if you didn’t find your service provider listed here, you should warm me or comment in this post for me and other reader to make rectifications.

so, here Live Counter and Statistic Services :

1. Web-Stat

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	www.web-stat.com
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for web-stat.com
Widget/Skin	Nice, with flash animations. Example :
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, No hidden ads, No pop up ads
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	Free service available for 30 trial days with Account capacity : 100,000 page views per month
Registration for free service	Your email and URL
Information provided for free service	traffic origin : - referrers - keywords - recent referrals - Referrer Tracker Traffic Over Time : - per day | all days - per month - per day of week - per hour of day Equipment Used : - browsers - operating systems - screen sizes - screen colors Traffic Location : - live map of recent visitors - static map of recent visitors - cumulative world map - geolocation recent visitors - countries | regions | cities Navigation : - page views - entrance pages - exit pages - click-paths - conversions Watchdog : - your site's downtime per day - per month - per day of week - per hour of day - detailed log # monitor any kind of site including Flash # monitor file downloads # get an alert if your site is down # live stats reports # detailed reports on individual visitors # geo-target your content # Invisible Counter Option, Configurable Counter, Configurable Summary Stats, Public Stats, Blocking Cookie See demo for detail visitor | demo for visitor map
Premium Services	It's so cheap, premium service available at $5/month
Registration for premium service	Your email, create password, and your URL only
Information provided for Premium service	Powerfull information. All information for admin need is provide here. It's ones of the best services!
Data/information stored limitation	Base on pageload
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	We can earn money through referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	3 If you have money, I'm strongly recommend you to using this service. Otherwise, you may try for 30 days on free. You may enjoy the full comprehensive information. It gives the most comprehensive analysis of any other tracker I have seen. Keep up the good work. The accuracy is unbeatable. It's simple and quick to use and the information is exactly what we need to see where our traffic comes from. Web-Stats is the BEST hands-down.

2. Histats

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	www.histats.com
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for histats.com
Widget/Skin	Nice, with flash animations. You may choose 1 line stat skin, 2 line stat skin, 3 line stat skin, or 4 line stat skin. Example :
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, No hidden ads, No pop up ads
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	Only last 20.000 visitor data will stored.
Registration for free service	Your email and URL
Information provided for free service	Traffic (Summary, Daily stats, Montly stats, Last 60 days) , Referer (From website, From search engine, Search engine trend) Visitors (browsers / os / lang, Geolocation), Last 20.000, Spesial Tag (ROI pages, Tracking pages, Click count, Path tracking, Manage special pages / click), Multi Site Control (you may add more than one site/blog). Check here for more information.
Premium Services	There is no premium account services, ALL COMPLATELY FREE
Data/information stored limitation	Base on pageload/visitor, only 20.000 visitor data will stored
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	There is no referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	3 You may enjoy free service with full comprehensive information as if premium user in other services:) I'M USING THIS SERVICE with love..

3. Start Counter

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	www.statcounter.com A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time! * Free, Fast, Responsive, Quick loading and Reliable Service. (Why is it free?) * Invisible Tracking - no ads on your website. * Accurate real-time website statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis.
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for statcounter.com
Widget/Skin	Nice, with flash animations. Example : see demo
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, No hidden ads, No pop up ads
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	Free service is aimed at websites with 250,000 pageloads per month or less and offers lifetime summary stats and a detailed analysis of your last 500 pageloads
Registration for free service	Your email and URL
Information provided for free service	Invisible Counter Option, Configurable Counter, Configurable Summary Stats, Magnify User, Drill Down, Popular Pages, Entry Pages, Exit Pages, Came From, Keyword Analysis, Recent Keyword Activity, Search Engine Wars, Visitor Paths, Visit Length, Returning Visits, Recent Pageload Activity, Recent Visitor Activity, Country/State/City Stats, Recent Visitor Google Map, ISP Stats, Browser Stats, O.S. Stats, Resolution Stats, JavaScript Stats, Email Reports, Multiple Site Management, User Access Management, Public Stats, Blocking Cookie For more informations, check out here : http://www.statcounter.com/services.html
Premium Services	Available started from $9/month to $29/month
Information provided for Premium service	Almost like free service, but data stored for 1,500,000 to 15,000,000 pageloads per month
Data/information stored limitation	Base on pageload
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	There is no referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	3 You may enjoy free service with full comprehensive information as if premium user in other services:)

4. SiteMeter

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	www.sitemeter.com
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for sitemeter.com
Widget/Skin	Minimalis, with no flash animations. Example :
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, No hidden ads, No pop up ads
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	Only store 100 detail visitor data. Site Meter logo or counter must be displayed on all the web pages you are tracking.
Registration for free service	Your email and URL. For free accounts, all that is required is the standard GoStats web counter/tracker link back.
Information provided for free service	- General (Summary, Who's On?, Traffic Prediction) - Recent visitors (By Details, By Referrals, By World Map, By Location, By Out Clicks, By Entry Pages, By Exit Pages) - Visits (Current Day , Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, Previous 12 Months) - Visits and page views (Current Day, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, Previous 12 Months) - Page ranking (Entry Pages, Exit Pages)
Premium Services	Available, started from $6.95/month or $59/year (about $4.95/month) for 25,000 page views Package up to $199.95/month or $1799/year (about $4.95/month) for 15,000,000 page views Package
Information provided for Premium service	There is a lot of different between free service and premium service. For more information, you may visit : Upgrade Information For premium user; the counter does not have to be visible on your web pages. An 'invisible' counter style is available. The details of the last 4,000 visitors are tracked. Your statistics pages will load faster without ads. The report lists the last 4,000 visitors to your site showing the search words they used to find your site and the site they came from.
Data/information stored limitation	Base on pageload
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	There is no referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	2

5. GoStats

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	gostats.com GoStats has been providing a reliable web stats traffic counter service since 1999.
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for gostats.com
Widget/Skin	Ordinary skin, some skin has flash animations. Example :
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, There are hidden ads and pop up ads for free user
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	There is no limitation, but advertisement will appear from sponsors of provider.
Registration for free service	Your email and URL. For free accounts, all that is required is the standard GoStats web counter/tracker link back.
Information provided for free service	# Only visible Counter option for free account # Summary (Page views, IP hosts, Unique visitors, Unique sessions, Return visitors, Bounce, Bounce Rate, Page views per visitor, Sessions per visitor, Visitors per IP host) # Average time on site # Real people over the last 30 days # Top sites # Last guests For more informations, check demo here
Premium Services	Available started from $8/month for Monthly Package, $45/six months for Semi-annually Package, and $90/year for Annually Package
Information provided for Premium service	Almost like free service, but (credit where credit is due) The Pro version will allow you to hide your webcounter. There will otherwise be no ads whatsoever on your website. For Monthly Package : With the GoStats professional version you get counter (link-back not required) or an invisible counter. Behind the scenes you also get reporting the Gostats powerful professional site statistics analyser. Monthly email report summaries are also included. For Semi-annually Package : Provides all of the 'Monthly' package plus: Free listing in our premium members register. (only for packages of six months or longer). For Annually Package : Provides all of the 'Monthly' package plus: Pay for a year and get a one month free.
Data/information stored limitation	Base on pageload
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	There is no referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	2

6. My Page Rank

data were updated on April 8, 2009

URL Service Provider	www.mypagerank.net
Alexa Rank	Alexa site info for mypagerank.net
Widget/Skin	standard with no flash animations. Example :
Spam/Hidden Ads/Pop up Ads	No spam, No hidden ads, No pop up ads
Free Service	Available
Free service limitation	Lifetime services with no trial day
Registration for free service	Your URL only
Information provided for free service	SEO monitor (Yahoo index and backlink, MSN index and backlink, Total visitor, Total page view, Total today visit, online visitor, yesterday visit), Google page rank, Google robot last visit, Yahoo robot last visit, Your site link (internal and external), etc.
Premium Services	Available, but still free
Registration for premium service	Your email, create password, and your URL only
Information provided for Premium service	Free service information plus ping service for site index through search engine. All free !
Data/information stored limitation	Continues, but you may not know where visitor had come and etc
Referral Program / Earn Money Program	there is no referral program
Grade (from An GG Ar An)	1 But this one is the most useful provider and all for free dude!

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Jakarta Real Time Traffic Monitor base on CCTV

Jakarta Real Time Traffic Monitor base on CCTV

Do you know Jakarta has Real Time Traffic Monitor?
Since Jakarta citizens need more real time traffic information, some media trying to provide more up to date traffic information. Not only television like Metro TV news and TV one or other news channel, but also radio have special channel to report traffic information such as Elshinta Radio at early work day in the morning and in the afternoon. People need to know where the best roads to choose in order to avoid traffic jam or to find the ways for bypass. As you know, now day Jakarta has traffic jam for almost roads due to significant vehicle growth during last decade.

Especially for now day, Indonesia will have 2009 People Election for House of Representatives in April 9, 2009 and Presidential And Vice Presidential Elections in July (first round) and September (final round). You don't want to stuck in campaign traffic jams, don't you?

Realized their real time traffic information are very critical for Jakarta citizens, then local governance of Jakarta decide to provide a real time traffic monitor through CCTV at most of intersections, business areas, and trade centers.






People can access this information through internet connections (by internet supported phone, mobile internet connection supported laptop, and PC in their office or other spot that has internet connection/hotspot).

Unfortunately, some citizens still didn't know to access this information through internet. So, in this blog I'll provide information needed to access them. You may access real time traffic monitor through CCTV below of this post.

Before you go to that access, I will explain how to use them :
First, you should have a flash player (such as adobe flash player 9) support in your browser. If you are using Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP service pack 2, than your browser are ready to use to streamming real time traffic. But, if you using Windows Mobile 5 or 6 or other PC Operating System, then you need to download the flash player support first. You may search here :

After you have flash player support, ther you can streamming real time traffic monitor. This is the steps :
1. After go to the website, you will find like this :

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2. First you should choose the district, the options are : Jakarta Timur (east Jakarta), Jakarta Pusat (central Jakarta), Jakarta Selatan (South Jakarta), Jakarta Barat (west Jakarta), and Jakarta Utara (North Jakarta).

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3. After choosing the district, now you can choose what CCTV point you want to view. Remember, not maybe not all CCTV is on when you want to view. CCTV status indicated at the end of every CCTV point, identificated by (ON) or (OFF).

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4. After choose the CCTV point, there's two method how you want to view the CCTV. They are STILL (for manual refresh) and AUTO REFRESH. If you choose auto refresh, the CCTV will auto refresh every 30 seconds.

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Oke, that's all...happy streaming :)
Just Click the picture below to start :

Goodbye Geo Counter

I'm no longer using Geo Counter (geocompteur) widget


From today, I'm no longer using Geo Counter (geocompteur) widget from www.widgeo.net with their third site map on www.compteur.cc. I love the widget view, but main reason I terminated using their service is they put advertises running by hidden script. It's annoying much...specially for my advertise on my own blog.

So, I CAN'T HARDLY WAIT TO DUMP www.widgeo.net from my blog.

At the first time, I'm so impressed by their widget skin..so attractive. And I realized they have policies that they will puts some ads in my blog. But, never know how often their pop up ads every time I and my friends or visitor load my blog. Until I count that their ads pop up in 2-3 ads windows for every single blog loading. Sometime their ads also appear inline of any word and crash my inline ads from adbrite or kontera which truly give me cash . I'm sure some of you still remember how disappointed when come to my blog in the past. I'm so sorry for that.

As you can read from www.widgeo.net, they have policies :

Policies

1. Our widgets are offered free of charge.
2. HTML code may not be modified by users.
3. We offer no guarantees of uptime or reliability.
4. In order to use our free services, you must include ALL of the html given when you sign up including the sponsored link. You may not alter the code. (exceptions may be made for minor formatting that does not hide the links)
5. If you have any adult content, you must use the right HTML code.
6. Some of the Products and Services are supported by advertising (Clicksor,CPX interactive(Yahoo),Linkshare,Gunggo...), enabling WIDGEO to provide them to you at no cost. When you use these free services, you agree to allow WIDGEO to display advertising, including third party advertising, through the Products and Services. WIDGEO reserves the right to modify the Products and Services from time to time, for any reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate the Products and Services or to change the nature, style, or form of advertisements displayed through the Products and Services.
7. With the use of Widgeo products and services on the site it is accepted that WIDGEO has the right to place advertisements on the site in any format or through any channel, including but not limited to e-mail, layer ads, pops, banners and other usual formats without any forewarning and it is furthermore accepted that WIDGEO takes no responsibility for the advertising content and that WIDGEO shall not be liable for any losses incurred regarding this advertising.
8. Widgeo.net reserves the right to terminate this service at any time and offers no guarantees of uptime or accuracy.

And, not like other similar service, I can't see my traffic detail when I click that widget. So, it less useful for me. They only show traffic report on the widget in my blog. This traffic only for a single day and total visitor information. So, I can't get my yesterday traffic information by this service. This is the widget look in my blog a minutes before I dump it (March 18, 2009 GMT+7) :


Anyway still I want to thank you for your services until this day. Goodbye www.widgeo.net !! Now, as you see I had replace it with other counter service which I'll discuss in my next post : Online Traffic Counter and Statistic Service Provider

Budget woes keep CCTV off

Tifa Asrianti , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 04/23/2008 10:37 AM | City

The Jakarta Police's CCTV traffic system is limping along with only 30 of 50 cameras operational, a result of budget shortfalls that prevent repairs and replacement.

Traffic Management Center coordinator Comr. Sambodo Purnomo said most of the cameras used in the closed-circuit television system had been operational for more than five years and were reaching the end of their shelf life.

"It's about time to replace the cameras, but we have a limited budget," he said.

According to the officer, one new CCTV camera costs around Rp 12 million (US$1,300).

Sambodo said the police outsourced the regular maintenance of the cameras to a private company.

Maintenance work is performed every one or two months, depending on weather conditions and the condition of the cameras.

He said more frequent maintenance was necessary during the rainy season, with thunder storms presenting a particular danger.

"The cameras use wireless technology that is affected by weather and other frequencies around the camera," he said.

Last Thursday, police had trouble managing traffic at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle because the CCTV camera in the area was not working.

"We can't use or rent cameras with fiber optics because it is too expensive. Meanwhile, we didn't allocate any funds to procure cameras this year," he said.

Until the cameras are fixed, the police will rely on patrol officers to monitor traffic in those areas with broken cameras, said Sambodo.

He said even if all the cameras were working, there would not be enough to give the police the necessary monitoring capacity to cover all of Jakarta.

He said at least 200 cameras were needed to deal with the capital's ever-growing traffic problems.

Facing budget constraints, the police say they will cooperate with other government institutions to develop a more extensive CCTV system in the capital. These institutions could include the Jakarta Crisis Center and state-owned toll road operators.

Sambodo said his office would also be interested in cooperating with busway operator TransJakarta if the transportation provider wanted to set up CCTV cameras to monitor busway lanes and ensure they were not used by private vehicles.

"We hope the city administration will help in the camera procurement," he said.

Sambodo said his office had submitted a budget proposal to replace the broken cameras. However, he added, the Jakarta Police had other priorities this year.