Using a web tracker, is this something bad?

[lana2000]

I know a few of the companies (that I have applied for a job) they leave my website as soon as they enter the very first page which makes me wonder, why?
Well, I have set a web tracker (statscounter.com) into the very first page of my personal academic website (for the analytical purposes) which collects many users information including their IP, would that be a problem for them? do they really know that I collect such kind of info ? is this something that considered to be bad to have it in your website (they may consider this as a spy thing :( ) ?

Please I need help here, should I remove that little statscounter script ?

Thank you.

[VIPStephan]

Most people don’t care at all about web trackers and/or they don’t even know what kind of information is collected. You know, if the tracker is showing a visit time of one second only this isn’t very precise. It can only track the visit time by measuring the time between two page hits (i. e. the time between the first visit on the site and a visit of another page on the site). If a person just views the entry page and then leaves the counter doesn’t know how long that person has viewed that page. They could have looked at it for an hour or just a second.

Also, as I read your post: Are you aware that for proper analysis you need to put the StatCounter code on each page of your site? That’s the only way you can check if they visit more pages of your site. If you only have the code on the first page then no wonder people “leave” the site immediately because the tracker doesn’t know that your site has more than that one page unless you actually put it on each page. Then you can check the “visitor paths” in the StatCounter admin and see where they go and how long they looked at each page before moving on to another.

[teedoff]

Why not use Google analytics to track site visitors. Its free and very robust. Tracks everything from how many visitors, where they came from, ad campaigns, how long they were on your site, and much more.