13. Viewing Blog Statistics

Objective: To use third-party tools to keep track of traffic to your blog.

If you’re hosting a blog, eventually you’re going to get curious about how many people are reading it. Unfortunately, Blogger doesn’t offer any built-in visitor counters or other usage tracking.

You can, however, utilize a variety of third-party tools to track your blog’s traffic. These tools will tell you how many visitors you’re getting, where they’re coming from, what they’re doing while visiting your blog, and so forth.

If you want to view usage statistics, you need to add one of these tools to your blog. Read on to learn how.

Using Third-Party Statistics Tools

I’ll start by presenting some of the third-party tools available to track ...

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