In case you don’t already know about it, Google Analytics is a free service that offers an amazing level of detail about access to your website, in an easy-to-use format. Here’s the “front page” of analysis for GBMINI, which I set up a week or two ago:
Josh Wardell introduced it to me (I think he’s been using it a long time), and I was impressed enough to try it immediately – you have to sign up at Google Analytics, add your website, then paste some supplied (Javascript) code in to every webpage, which is easy to do with WordPress since you can just modify the template header or footer.
Since it uses Javascript, it won’t work for people that have turned off such features in their browser – but it still gives impressive data, including average daily visits, most viewed pages, information on how visitors got to the page and where they went next, and location of the visitor (down to city detail for USA).
It’s intended for users of Google advertising features, and has loads of stuff I don’t use that helps figure whether people buy products or not! But for me, having an easy view of my websites is enough, and I love the price!
