User Guide

Last updated February 2007.

The guide below is intended as a reference to navigate through the menu, taking full advantage of the many features provided.

Please contact us should you have any question or comment. Just let us know if you would like to see any particular new feature implemented, we are thankfully for any suggestion which improves our service.

Table of Contents

Stats Rely Free Counter at a Glance

User Menu
Visitors
System & Geo
Referrers
Pages
Delete Account

Stats Rely Free Counter at a Glance

Features

• 100% Free Web Counter
• 100% Free Web Site Traffic Statistics
• Invisible counter available � no ads or banners shown
• Ad-free environment after login, no ads displayed on your website
• Instant signup & activation with 7 days of free log size at start-up


• View visitors to your site: Visitors displayed by Hour, Day, Week or Month
• Graphical display and Summary: Unique visitors, hits, total page views
• Live visitor tracking: see who is currently online with InLive


• Track browsers, systems and more
• View your visitor�s country of origin
• Track referring URLs, search engines
• Most popular pages, time spent
• Analyze the paths your visitors take
• Track visitor�s entry and exit pages
• Most commonly searched phrase and words
• Top referring Search Engines


• No page restrictions � use Stats Rely on as many pages as you like � and much, much more!
• E-mail Support: To setup and customise Stats Rely Free Counter according to your needs � just let us know.

User Menu

Get Stats Code

Choose the counter style must suitable for your purposes, cut and past the code into your website code, and you are all set for collecting traffic data.

Our Counter Styles

Below you find a choice of  available counter styles. Should you prefer a different style or colour, just let us known. We gladly customise the counter further to suit your purposes.

Invisible Counter

A visible counter is not displayed on your website, just the stats are collected.

Stats Rely Classic:

Stats Rely Shade:

Stats Rely Simple

The numbers show the total page views (including reloads) of the website displaying the counter. The lower number is reset every 24 hours.

Get InLive Code

The code, once inserted into your webpage, will show how many users are currently browsing your website. This will look like "10 users online" as plain text. You don't need to put this code for InLive Stats to be working. This code is only used if you want to display the number of users online.

Upgrade

Stats Rely also gives you the opportunity to track up to a year's worth of stats without restriction. The log size is based on a time period and is set by default to 7 days. We are currently investigating an extension of the log size time period for all users. During implementation of the new design and review of the user database, the upgrade function is temporarily disabled. Please contact us if you are interested and require a longer time period for your log.

Edit My Profile

Allows you to change your password, specify your e-mail contact, name of your web site, the URL of the web site the stats are collected. Further you may provide a description, the type and language of your web site. Here you can also set your current time, as well when a visit is to be counted as new, between 1 and 24 hours.

Excluded addresses

Defines any domains or IP�s you do not want to have counted, e.g. your own IP or from your referrers. This will exclude any domains or IP�s you do not want to show up from a particular referrer and visited IP�s.

Logout

This function allows you to exit your user account. Hope to see you again soon!

Visitors

This is the main feature of StatRely Free Hit Counter, providing useful traffic information about your website.

The number of visitors to your website is displayed graphically by the hour, day, week, month or year. This allows you to easily determine trends as well as the traffic behaviour of your visitors.

The graphic report uses three types of statistics: unique visitors, hits and page views.

Unique visitors

A unique visitor is defined as a visit from one particular ip over a certain period of time. The unique visitor is definable in

User Menu Edit My Profile It�s a new visit

The unique visitor is set in a range between 1 hour and 24 hours (one day). Assuming a unique visitor is defined as a new visit after 24 hours, a visitor returning several times to the webpage within 24 hours is counted as a unique visitor.

Hits

A hit is counted every time a user opens a page on the web site different to previously viewed one. Reloading the same page does not count as a hit.

Page Views

Page views are the total number of page views, including reloading the same page, the page view being a unique visit, or coming from a different page.

InLive Stats shows the number of �users online�, namely the number of visitors currently browsing the web site. InLive option includes information about country of origin, IP address, browser, operating system, resolution and JavaScript.

Visitor Reports

You can choose to display the hits your webpage receives either per day, week, month or year. The stats are shown in a graph displaying the unique visitors, hits and total page views with reloads.

Date Selection

On any of the reports (Today, Hours of Day, Days of Week, Days of Month and Months of Year) a date range can be chosen by using the simple control incorporated in the calendar:

Hours of Day

For a chosen date (default: actual day), the number of unique visitors, hits and page views is shown graphically, together with a summary, a bar chart display per hour of day and a last visitors list. A particular day may also be selected directly via the calendar control in the hours of day view.

Days of Week

For a chosen week (default: actual week), the number of unique visitors, hits and page views per day of week is shown graphically, together with a summary and a bar chart display per day of week. A week can also be selected directly via the calendar control in the days of week view. Note that in the default log size (7days) only the statistics for the actual week is shown.

Days of Month

For a chosen month, the number of unique visitors, hits and page views per day of month is shown graphically, together with a summary and a bar chart display per day of month. A month may also be selected directly via the calendar control in the days of month view. Note that in the default log size (7days) only the statistics for the last 7 days is shown.

Months of Year

For log sizes larger than a month, the number of unique visitors, hits and page views per month is shown graphically, together with a summary and a bar chart display per month of year.

System&Geo

Get to know your visitors�

Resolution

This feature displays the screen resolution of the visitors to your website in actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic.

Colours

Displays the colour depths used by the visitors to your website in actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic.

Browsers

Displays the browser used by the visitors to your website in actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic. This information is useful to determine the most popular browsers used by your visitors.

System

Displays the operating systems used by the visitors to your website in actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic.

JavaScript

Details: summary of enabled and disabled JavaScript.

Country of origin

The country from which the visitors to your website come from is displayed in actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic. This information can be useful e.g. if you are planning to provide the content of your web site in different languages.

Referrers

Summary

For a chosen date, a summary of referring sites, together with referrals from search engines is given.

Referring URLs

Displays the URL from which a user was directed to your web site.

Search Engines

The Last 50 Search Engine Referrers is displayed by date, time and referring search engine URL. For the current day the Search Engines Summary gives information of the actual number and percentage thereof as bar and pie chart graphic. The search engine referral information is particular useful in determining the search engines generating traffic to your web site.

Search Keywords

The Last 50 Search Engine queries by date, time, search engine, search keywords and Top 50 Search Engine queries with actual number and keywords used to reach your web site is displayed. This information is useful in order to optimise submission of your web site to search engines.

Pages

Popular Pages

For a chosen date, Top 50 Pages displays the web pages visitors mostly view on your website. This information may be useful to determine which web pages (and content) the visitors to your website are most interested in.

Entry Pages

Displays the Top 50 Entry Pages, which is the first page a user to your website visits.

Exit Pages

Displays the Top 50 Exit Pages, which is the last page a user visits before leaving your website.

Paths

Displays how the visitors move through the web pages of your website. Information like referring URL, pages visited, time and exit links allows you to determine how effective the navigation or information layout of your website is.

Time Spent

The time visitors spend browsing on your website is shown.

Exit Links

For the chosen date, the Top 50 Exit Links and Last 50 Exit Links by date, time and title is displayed. This information allows you to determine where your visitors go to when leaving your website, e.g. by following a link of one of your advertisers.

Adsense Exit Links

For the chosen date, the Top 50 Google-AdSense Exit Links and Last 50 Google-AdSense Exit Links by date, time and title is displayed. This information allows you to determine what Google Adsense ads were clicked on your website.

Delete Account

Delete My Account

Should you be no longer interested in using our StatRely Free Hit Counter, then this function allows you to schedule your account for deletion.