General Discussions

**z4z3** · 06-19-2006, 02:24 AM

I just found an awesome site! Its PR is 10!
Did you know that http://www.statcounter.com is a PR10 Site? I found this site from Google before,however,I just knew that its PR is 10 yesterday!
Awesome and Weird! How did they get such PR?

**kkcindia** · 06-19-2006, 02:39 AM

theny have a huge traffic ( users) . that's why they are on top

**chrishirst** · 06-19-2006, 02:51 AM

nothing to do with traffic at all.

It's simply that every page that has a statcounter hit counter on it also has a hidden link back to statcounter.

**z4z3** · 06-19-2006, 08:41 PM

Anyone use their hit counter ? Is it accurate ?

**stOx** · 06-19-2006, 08:43 PM

I guess it would be accurate.

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-19-2006, 11:25 PM

It's like every other hit counter. Easy to manipulate and contains very little useful information.

A good host should provide stats on some level. If you have to use this sort of thing, you're not hosted well enough.

**Harvey** · 06-20-2006, 06:51 AM

Adam, not sure if you've actually used statcounter or not, but it actually happens to be a fantastic counter. It's much more user friendly than things like Awstats and has loads of useful features:

Summary
Popular Pages
Entry Pages
Exit Pages
Came From
Keyword Analysis
Recent Keyword Activity
Recent Came From
Search Engine Wars
Visitor Paths
Visit Length
Returning Visits
Recent Pageload Activity
Recent Visitor Activity
Country/State/City/ISP
Browser
System Stats
Lookup IP Address
Download Logs

Oh, and as Chris said, as for the PR, non-invisible counters (not sure about invisible ones) link back to it, not to mention the fact that it's a great webmaster tool

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-20-2006, 11:55 AM

Harvey: I have used it. I've also used AWStats, LiveStats since about v. 5, WebTrends, Webalizer, and Urchin. For my money, even with the steps backwards they've been taking, I'm all about the LiveStats. Much more info there.

As far as IP geotargeting is concerned, that's an inexact science at best. Try it with any AOL IP and you'll see what I'm referring to.

**z4z3** · 06-21-2006, 10:03 PM

you use FREE Service or paid Service ?

**Spin** · 06-25-2006, 05:20 AM

I took a quick look at the demo.

It doesn't seem to be able to combine different factors, for an example average pageviews or % of people only visiting your frontpage for visitors coming from a spesific referer, using different screen resolutions, browsers, etc.