Anyone developed an Excel Speadsheet for tracking visits?

[bolin]

I was just wondering if anyone has developed an Excel spreadsheet for tracking monthly "visit" stats. I created one from scratch but thought somebody might have thought of some ways of displaying data that I hadn't.

Any thoughts?

[Hannu]

Hi bolin and welcome!

I was wondering why you would use Excel for that purpose..?

Anyway, you can get a lot of stat packages that'll do the job, check this thread:

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[bolin]

My thought would be that I could show the finished speadsheet to the people in my organization who were only interested in certain facts and figures. If you or I look at WebTrends, we can more easily interperet what each page of information is saying. I would like to show things like hits for the last two months; hits to certain directories; trends and so on.

Thanks for the reference to the other discussion. I'll check it out.

[fathom]

just sent you one, let me know if its any good to you

Rod

[wolfy]

Hi people!!
And what about tracking the exact user course ? I mean, I would like to know exactly where my user who bought something from the website came from, now I'm doing it with notepad ( I search the referral page and then I copy the IP numbers and search again to view the course ) but i think there would be another way to do it right? I can't do it with WebTrends, any suggstions ??

[fathom]

Try Hitslinks much more robust that Webtrends.

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[sagerock]

That looks like a good one, fathom.

I'm becoming more and more pleased with what is coming up in the remotely hosted log analysis solutions available these days.

It appears that this space is filling in nicely.

I've just tried sitestats.com and it too has Excel capabilities and additionally tracks emails and ecommerce web site referrals.

I've briefly looked over promotionstat.com. It appears to have similar capabilities. However, their pricing is by the number of url's you want to track. They might be a bit more detailed in their reporting but if I could track an unlimited number of pages and give up some features I might be tempted.

These programs are extremely affordable and really appear to be focused on the needs of the marketer.

I'm really excited to see these solutions popping up.