Statcounter just increased the log size on their free accounts.
I’ve been using Statcounter on all of our sites mainly just to keep track of how many people have visited a particular site since I first installed Statcounter. In most cases I installed Statcounter within the first month of starting a blog so the numbers that you see in our statcounter badges on our sites are fairly accurate. Well, that is if statcounter is truly accurate of course.
I’ve got a free account at Statcounter. I’ve had it for more than a year. I’ve slowly added more and more sites to my account. Trouble was that the original Statcounter log size was only 100, which meant that I could only see where the last 100 visitors came from, as well as other stats such as what keyword search brought them to the site and so on.
In the beginning when our sites were getting less than 100 page views per day that was fine, but the majority of our sites get far more visitors that that each day now. Which means it was more of a novelty checking stats. I’d be able to see who visited perhaps in the last 4 to 6 hours rather than in the last 24+ hours.
The log size has just increased to 500. If you have an account there simply log into your account and click on the tool bar symbol next to your site listing, then find the “adjust log size” link. Click on the adjust log size link and change your log from 100 to 500.
Now that I’ve increased the log size on all of our sites I’ll be able to get a much better idea of what people are viewing when they visit our sites, how they got to our site and what they were searching for if they came in through a search engine.
Try it for yourself. It’s free.
It doesn’t happen too often to me, but there’s been times when I’ve deleted a file and then cleaned out the desktop recycling bin on my computer desktop only to realize moments later that I’ve made an awful mistake and deleted the wrong file.