Wow, Statcounter was started by a young man when he was 16!
Web July 21st, 2007
Statcounter is one of my favorite web statics site. I like it because:
- Almost realtime to display the traffic to the web site; (In Google analytics, you can only see data 24 hours ago)
- Very fast to response when install the tracking code, static data is almost immediately appear after the install. (Google analystic will let you wait at least 24 hours and there are several boring “verify” steps to make it work)
- Hidden tracker even for free version
- Multiple sites tracking in one account
- Simple but good enough for personal site
The only thing bad is, free version statcounter only track the latest 500 activities, so all static information are only based on those latest logs. Even a paid version only increase the log size bigger, so it’s not possible to view the whole picture of the web traffic.
What suprised me is a story in BusinessWeek:
The booming Irish Web analytics startup was launched by the top vote-getter in BusinessWeek’s young entrepreneur contest when he was just 16
In 1999, at the age of 16, Cullen launched Dublin-based StatCounter, an online service that lets clients measure the number of hits they get on their Web sites, plus the geographical location of visitors, the pages people view, and the keywords they use to find a site.
That turned out to be a smart move for the young Irishman, now 24.
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“The only thing bad is, free version statcounter only track the latest 500 activities, so all static information are only based on those latest logs. Even a paid version only increase the log size bigger, so it’s not possible to view the whole picture of the web traffic.”
This is not true
Summary stats will be stored over the time and you’ll have more and more statistic information - the
detailed stats are limited, but this feature doesn’t exists in other systems (such as Google Analytics) at all! SC is realtime,
stores all your daily requests forever as summaries AND can give you a really deeply detailed statistics as well (and you can
extend the 500 loglines if you would like with the premium version). Even there is an option to download these logs to preserve locally…