Track Your Blog With SiteMeter Widget

By Raj | Sep 28, 2007

SiteMeter has come out with a cool little toy, SiteMeter Widget, for the aid of bloggers who use SiteMeter. SiteMeter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools provide a blogger instant access to vital information and data about his site’s audience. With their detailed reporting, a blogger will have a clear picture of who is visiting his site, how they found the site, where they came from, what interests them and much more. The WordPress SiteMeter plugin that provides this functionality even found a notch in the Top Ten WordPress Plugins. Tracking your blog’s performance and statistics is very much essential in further optimizing it for a much better show day by day. Moreover, SiteMeter Basic is a free service.

SiteMeter widget is technically a Yahoo Widget that is placed on the blogger’s PC desktop. It displays the count of the site’s traffic updated every six minutes so that you’re updated with your blog’s performance at any point in time. With a simple mouse click on the widget’s switch, the option can be changed from page views to visits. At midnight each night, it resets and starts all over again. It also has some fun little custom options like speech, fonts, etc., i.e., for those who prefer an audible notification, a voice can be enabled which will tell how many visits or page views the site has. The voice will notify every 6 minutes when the widget checks the site’s data. Yahoo Widgets on your PC is required prior to installing SiteMeter WordPress widget. Windows as well as Mac versions are available.

Get more details, installation instruction, download location etc., from SiteMeter’s weblog.

2 Responses to “Track Your Blog With SiteMeter Widget”

aiza on September 19th, 2009, at 1:34 pm said:

i really wanted to put a sitemeter in my new site for easy visitor tracking but i dont know how to do it. pls help me. thank you. you may look at my site…

Raj on September 19th, 2009, at 3:19 pm said:

Visited your site. Interesting site and nice design.

1.) Go to sitemeter signup page.
2.) Sign up for a basic account.
3.) Log in.
4.) Grab the code.
5.) Paste it in your template.

That’s all. Your visitor details will be getting tracked thereafter. You can view the traffic details by logging into your account.