I was asked how do I figure how how many people visit the site every day. I should’t check it often but I do. On the hour, “ooh 1 more person just visited!” Anyway, there are a few things I use to check this.

is the primary tool that is used for this. It’s a fantastic lightweight engine powered by PHP and MySQL developed by a very cool guy. I have it licensed for all of my sites and absolutely love it. He answers every email and is constantly updating the application and modules. On top of that, there’s a huge community of users constantly developing new add-ons. This is the hour to hour tool I use because it’s in real time showing visitors, their info and where they came from.

[url=http://google.com/analytics]Google Analytics is also pretty cool because it breaks things down a little differently. It does not show up to the minute stats for your site but it has some additional features I like if I’m trying to breakdown the last month of visitors.

1&1 Web statistics comes from my ISP and I use this to see what files are being downloaded most. I used to host my podcast here and would use that to determine how many listeners we have. Now, the AdamJackson Live podcast and DailyTechTalk Live cast are hosted over at Libsyn which has a really cool statistics engine.