Your name and address of course is not gathered, but extremely useful information about the visiting computer is gathered such as:
- The language used
- The server location (country)
- The browser being used
- The operating system
- The screen resolution and colours
- Support of java and flash
Visitor information gathered includes:
- How many visitors altogether
- New visitors
- Unique visitors (eg 10 people visited 25 times)
- Average number of pages viewed
- How long they spent on the site
- How many only visited a single page and then left
Traffic sources - this is an incredibly valuable resource - how did your visitors arrive at your site?