There are two main ways websites are compared and ranked and each of them has problems, but nonetheless, have become the ’standard’ measurement tools. The first is Alexa ranking and the second is Google PageRank.
Today I want to introduce you to your Alexa ranking. What the heck is that? Well, it’s a popularity rank from the most popular site on the web on down. Today on the Global Top 500 list, #1 is Yahoo.com. That’s out of all the websites on the Internet. When you look at …

There are many statistics programs and services available to us these days, and I have to admit, I use several – some even on the same site! Each program or service presents your stats in varying ways, and some include data that others don’t. I have yet to find the ‘perfect’ stats solution.
However…

I can recommend StatCounter – it’s fast, it’s friendly and it gives you REAL time numbers (unlike the big G’s analytics.)