giving our readers with swift and dependable softwares to work with. We have recently covered 'Woopra' analytics service. Today, we have yet another cool website analytical tool called W3Counter. It is an easy to use, free website analytical software that enables a Webmaster to:

• Find the locations of their visitors (Live Visitor Map) and can find out as to how the visitor located the website.
• Gather information on user interests.

W3Counter does not require any installation and immediately starts up the tracking activities as soon as a code is copied and pasted in the website. Some of the salient features provided by W3Counter are:

• Visitor Tracking: Because of the real time advantage of W3Counter, a Webmaster can monitor the path of the visitors as they browse the website. A visitor's path of origin, their online status can also be determined through this software.

• Identification of a Visitor: Individual labels can be assigned to a visitor, which would then show in the W3Counter generated reports. These labels will help a Webmaster identify the visitor's recent and past activities on the website.
• Web Statistics Widgets: A Webmaster can embed different sorts of statistical widgets on his website or his blog to to share or show his web statistics. These widgets can be visitor maps, top pages, top searches, weekly visit graphs and a live feed of the most recent people on his website.
• Feedburner Feed Statistics: Feedburner Feed Statistics such as Circulation, Hits and Reach for the Feedburner account can also be tracked using the Feedburner API (Application Programming Interface).
• Dashboard: Individual dashboards for separate websites provide the Webmaster with comprehensive key statistics. Components like search phrases, content and visitor locations and page view activity for the last two weeks would be displayed in the dashboards.
• Tracking Images: There is long list of images that can be used by the Webmaster to match any website or blog theme. These include hit counters, images without counts or no visible images.

As mentioned before, the W3Counter is a License-Free software. However, the free version is only available to those Webmasters who receive less than 5,000 page views daily. A Webmaster can track an individual website and simultaneously view nearly 30 real-time reports on his website activity.

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