Traffic Spotter

About a month ago, Mari and I considered removing a large section of pages from Willmaster.com. They contained old support forum posts and responses. The section has 796 pages.

Some of the posts related to software we no longer distribute. Some had solutions good for that day, but better solutions have come along.

If the decision is to keep the section, the section will want updating.

In order to make an informed decision, we needed to know how much traffic that section of the website is getting and, for traffic coming from search engines, what terms people use to find us.

To get that information, I made the PHP script named Traffic Spotter, now in the WebSite's Secret area. (Log in first)

Here are the results of our test.

Not counting visits by the big 3's SE crawlers, the section averaged 1,446 visitors per day. 97 of those came from searches at the big 3.

The rest came from other links on the net, from page to page surfing, from bookmarks or other direct page access, and from crawlers and spiders the software does not watch for.

The script can be used as a traffic spotter for one or many pages.

Members, get your Traffic Spotter here.