I am again on a roll. I am here to introduce to you yet another very cool and useful software. And this is open source as well. This should be interesting to a lot of you webmaster geeks out there. PhpMyVisites is a web statistics script meant to collect information on your website. It helps you monitor your visitors transparently and provides you all the needed information to configure and optimize your site. All it requires is a little javascript embedded in your web pages and you will immediately get information on your visitors. Remember, knowing all these information will definitely make you a better webmaster.

Although PhpMyVisites is free, you will get a ton of features from it. PhpMyVisites can monitor your visitor frequency, visitor statistics over a period of time, visitor analysis, geographical statistics, technical configuration statistics, search engine users and much more. They even have a clicks heatmap which tells you what your visitors are clicking on a certain page. You can get all the needed information from their very friendly interface, complete with graphs for easy viewing. It also supports multiple websites which I believe is useful if you have a number of websites to monitor. You can access all your web stats from just one interface. And don’t worry about security as PhpMySites is built with security in mind. PhpMyVisites also supports more than 30 languages! That’s more than what most people can count so you should be fine.

This script requires just PHP and a MySQL database to store all it’s information. This is pretty standard and most webhosts should already supports this requirement. If your webhost does not support these simple requirements, you should ditch it and change to another better webhost. You just need to edit the file to tell the script where the database is, chmod some files and then it is done! Of course, you still need to add the javascript code into your actual site code.