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How to read a referrer report A referrer is the page that linked to you. Here is how to read that list without treating every row as a campaign. 3 min How to track more than one website Each site needs its own widget. Sharing one snippet mixes two audiences into a single map and a single stats page. 2 min What is a visitor map and how does it work? A visitor map plots recent visits by place. Here is what the dot means, how the lookup works, and what it cannot tell you. 5 min What city-level geolocation gets wrong Country from an IP address is usually right. The city often is not. Here is why, and which decisions survive that. 2 min How to tell bots from real visitors Bots request your pages too. Here is how to spot them in a visitor list before you treat a spike as an audience. 3 min How to track website visitors by country Country tracking uses IP geolocation. Here is how to collect it, how accurate it is, and what to do with the table. 5 min How to choose a traffic date range A day, a week, and a month answer different questions. Pick the range before you read the map or the country table. 3 min What a visitor counter actually counts A counter counts loads of the widget, not people and not sessions. Here is the unit, and what to say about the number. 2 min

How often does a visitor map update? The map updates when a browser requests the widget. There is no hourly batch. A cached page that never requests the image does not update anything. 2 min Does a visitor map slow down my website? The widget is an extra request. It should not block the page if it is loaded the way an image or a deferred script loads. 2 min Can a visitor map show a street address? No. IP geolocation does not resolve a house, a name, or a person. The pin is a coarse place, usually a country and sometimes a city. 2 min What is direct traffic? Direct traffic is the bucket for visits that arrived with no referrer. It mixes bookmarks, typed URLs, and apps that hide the source. 2 min What is a referrer? The referrer is the previous page the browser named when it asked for yours. It is a header, not a campaign name. 2 min What is a session? A session is a tool's grouping of hits from one browser into one visit, usually ended by 30 minutes of quiet. A hit counter does not build sessions. 2 min What is a unique visitor? A unique visitor is one browser the tool tried not to count twice. It is an estimate, and a hit counter does not produce it. 2 min What is UTM tracking? UTM tracking adds source, medium, and campaign tags to a URL so you can tell which link brought the visit. 3 min What is a pageview? A pageview is one load of a page as a tracker defined it. It is not a person and it is not automatically one widget hit. 2 min

Google Analytics alternatives GA4 is one kind of analytics. Here is an honest split between full suites, privacy dashboards, and a free visitor map. 4 min Plausible vs Google Analytics Plausible is a small, paid, privacy-first dashboard. GA4 is a free suite aimed at events, ads, and funnels. They replace each other only for the reports you are willing to drop. 2 min Cloudflare Web Analytics vs a visitor map Cloudflare's analytics counts pages at the edge, for sites it already proxies. A visitor map is a snippet and a public picture. They overlap on country totals and little else. 2 min Visitor map vs hit counter A hit counter is a number. A visitor map is that number plus a place. Neither one is a session or a unique reader. 2 min

IP geolocation IP geolocation maps a network address to a registered place. Country is usually right. A city is a guess. A street is not in the data. 1 min User agent The user agent is the string a browser or a bot sends to name itself. It is how you tell Chrome from a script, and it can be faked. 1 min Impression An impression is one display of a creative or a widget. It is counted when the thing was served, not when a person noticed it. 1 min Direct traffic Direct traffic is the visits that arrived with no referrer. It mixes bookmarks, typed URLs, and hidden sources. 1 min Referrer The referrer is the previous page URL a browser may send when it requests your page. The header is spelled Referer. 1 min Session A session is a tool's bundle of hits from one browser into one visit, usually cut after 30 minutes of silence. 1 min Bounce rate Bounce rate is the share of visits that leave without a second tracked interaction. A high number is not automatically a failure. 3 min Unique visitor A unique visitor is one browser a tool tried to count once in a period. The same person on two devices is two. 1 min Pageview A pageview is one recorded load of a page. A reload counts again. It is not a person. 1 min

How to check that the widget is recording Load the live page, confirm the browser requested the widget, then find that URL on your stats page. Stop when any one of those is missing. 2 min How to add a visitor map to an HTML page Paste the snippet before the closing body tag, give the image a size, and load the file from the real host to prove a visit was stored. 2 min How to add a visitor map in WordPress Create the widget, then paste the snippet into a Custom HTML block or the theme footer. Confirm a test visit before you change the design. 2 min How to add a visitor map widget to your website Create a free MapMyVisitors widget, paste the snippet, and confirm a real visit shows up on the stats page. 4 min