Best way to track visitors?

[donkeybreath]

Im not too great with programming yet but I am good with HTML. Is there actually any good sites out there that can track visitors with decent accuracy? I have found a lot of crappy ones that seem to be incorrect. And in google adsense, for 'page impression' if a person refreshes the page 5 times or does it just count them once or 5 times?

[Imaster]

Have you tried Awstats?

[phantombookman]

Have you checked with your hosting company?
They may well provide them FOC

[donkeybreath]

my company that i host with does have stats but not too detailed.

[larryn]

donkeybreath,

In order to track visitors "with decent accuracy" you really need to use a session ID cookie or tracking URL, along with software that takes advantage of that tracking widget.

Without a tracking widget, the software has to look at other log entries in order to 'guess' the visits. Each application has its own methods, and I'm willing to take money that they will never agree on the number.

Good Luck,

Larry

[cfx211]

This thread is a good primer on the subject:

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