If you are a digital photographer you probably have a website. I have a few sites and it is pretty smart to know if people are visiting those websites? I want to know if I am blogging and posting updates in vain!

For a while I have been using Google Analytics – and I will continue to use it since it is free and it is pretty informative. Google seems to be the king of all web knowledge. However, I learned about another service called Woopra. It offers real-time statistics. I signed up for free – and depending on how much traffic you have to your website the service is free.

Here is a screen shot of the application. I could see what city people were visiting from – as it was happening.

Woopra

That is just so cool. And hopefully this will provide information on when is the best time to blog? Should I post things on Saturdays and Sundays? Or should I wait till Mondays?

And I am using the free Woopra plugin for WordPress. I did have to use some HTML code for one of my websites – for some reason the WordPress plugin didn’t work on davidphotographytips.com. But once I added the code to the footer things worked great.

Right now I can see that my daviddanielsphotography.com website has had visitors from the US, Spain, Canada and even Saudi Arabia.

And hopefully knowing this information will help encourage me to blog more and be more effective in my website strategy.