In a nut shell

Simple Stats is a web statistics utility designed to enable you in monitoring visits on your website. It is very simple to install, and its interface goes straight to the important facts such as the Google search queries (understand "the search expressions in Google") that your visitors might have used to browse to your website :

Additionally, it is based on PHP, a widely used server scripting language that most web hosts have installed on their machines. And it requires no database (such as MySQL based DB's), but simply uses text files in an optimized way !

4 simple steps

1/ Get ready

• First, make sure that your web host accepts PHP scripts
• Then, change the "index.html" file name to "index.php"

2/ Download

• simplestats.zip (1.0 Mb) (v. 1.05 - last updated February 2nd, 2010)

3/ Install

• Unzip "simplestats.zip"
• Upload the "simplestats" folder to the root of your website
• In your website index file which you've renamed earlier to "index.php", before any HTML tag, comment or any text of any kind, add the following :
  <?php include("./simplestats/simplestats.inc"); ?>

4/ Play

• Browse to the following address :
  http://www.mydomainname.com/simplestats/
• Please note that, in order not to falsen your statistics when visiting your own website, you may use ?nostats at the end of the url : your visit won't be recorded. For example :
  http://www.mydomainname.com/index.php?nostats

Disclaimer

• We, at USER STUDIO, are not responsible for any damage that may be caused to your website from any proper or improper use of our products. By installing our products, you agree to use them at your own risks !
• In addition, we don't garanty that our products will serve their purpose properly, as stated on their information sites such as this one.
• Finally, please note that Simple Stats is not suitable for large, heavy traffic websites. You may want to search the web for other tools if that's the kind of site you have in mind...