Statistics state the average visitor length to a website is 5 seconds, ie. your website has just 5 seconds to make a visual impact and entice that customer to stay. If your average visitor length is 5 seconds or under, your website is failing to do that. If it’s 5 seconds or over your website is going its job in enticing visitors to stay and find out more.

The term ‘recent came from’ is simply another way to describe a referral visitor.

Referrers are websites which link to your site. If a customer clicks on this link they have been ‘referred’ to your site from a third party site. By tracking regular and popular referrers you can help build relationships with these sites to promote traffic further.

Many stats programs offer the ability to analyze customer location. Analyzing customer location is important as it enables you to make any adjustments needed to serve your visitors better.

For example, if your site was in English and you found out many of your visitors came from Portugal, it may well help your visitors to translate portions of your site into Portuguese.

There are a number of third party visitor counters available for your site. Once exceptionally good counter is StatCounter, which can be found at www.statcounter.com

Statcounter is an invisible counter which is incorporated into the code of your web page, which counts visitors, shows visitor locations,  time of visit, browser, etc…

The features in Statcounter outweigh Webalizer and Analog Stats and it’s a useful tool for monitoring visitors to your web pages.