What is Statcounter
Posted on March 4, 2009 |
StatCounter is a free web traffic logging service that lets you find out how many visitors your site is getting, where they are in the world, which browser they use and how many times they have visited your site.
It also importantly will tell you what keywords they entered to find your site if they found it via a search engine or which domain name they were on if they got to your site via a link.
If you have an interest in web traffic, and you should, then StatCounter is an excellent way to start finding out what is going on. The sad truth is that most websites get very little traffic and so they struggle to make any money. StatCounter will tell you the brutal facts of what is going on with your own site. Read more
What is a Domain Name
Posted on March 4, 2009 |
A domain name is a user-friendly way of accessing a series of files that are related and stores on a server. Most domain names are made up of words or names that can be easily typed into the address bar of a browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari.
When a domain name is entered an online table is looked up to find the actual Internet address that corresponds to the physical location of all the files that make up the underlying website. So in a sense a domain name is just a convenient and often memorable shorthand for an Internet address.
Domain names are purchaseable and any business operating online really needs to have one. They are cheap now although in the early days of the Internet they were expensive. You can buy domains for a few dollars or less now although the cost is on-going and you may have to renew your domain name every year, again for a small fee. This fee goes to the business that organises the domain for you with a mandatory payment to the official Internet domain controller called ICANN. Read more