Many websites these days are tracking website visitor traffic. This traffic can be tracked via server-side technologies or using client-side technologies.

These following technologies are just some of the way in which you can track website traffic. They has the ability to know the the time, the IP address, and the browser used in viewing website pages.

Server-side technologies

• Web server logs - web server often log each server calls and determine when and where the request has come from
• AwStats - free server log analyzer tool commonly available on many Linus shared webhosts
• Webalizer - free server log analyzer tool commonly available on many Linus shared webhosts

Client Side Technologies

• Google Analytics - free service where you place some code (usually) Javascript on each of your website pages. This harvests information as to where your users come from and where they go on the site.
• StatCounter - free web tracker and hit counter