A few of us just put together a gaming site where we share walkthrough secrets, tips for getting past hard levels, release announcements for new games and similar stuff. Now that we’ve started promoting it, I want to keep an eye on how the traffic is growing. I have no idea what to use for that, though. So which tool would you pick for tracking traffic? Something simple that doesn’t need a degree to read would be great.
Which tool should I use to track my site’s traffic?
Nice, a site with walkthroughs and release news is a good niche, gamers search for this stuff constantly. Since the promotion is only starting, it helps to have numbers from day one so you can see what actually works. I’d go with Cloudflare Web Analytics, it’s free and you just paste one small snippet into the site. After that you get visitors per day and your top pages on one screen.
Gaming sites have a weird traffic pattern, a big release or a trailer drop can send a pile of people your way for a day or two and then it falls back. So one good day doesn’t tell you much, the trend over a few weeks does. Weekly numbers are a lot easier to read than daily ones. You can use this site traffic checker here: https://pr-cy.io/site-statistics/ . Release days will always spike, that’s just how gaming sites work. The number to watch is what the quiet weeks in between look like.