Website analytics software is a critical part of online business success as website analytics software shows you all kinds of important information about your blogs visitors including where they came from and why. There are two kinds of website analytics programs:

  1. Third Party: these include Google Analytics. The app the monitors your websites visitors is hosted and maintained by another online company.
  2. Self Hosted: example - Piwik (now matomo). The required files to monitor your websites visitors are installed to your web server and maintained by you.

Another option is a program that provides tracking information as an add-on to another service. For example, tawk.to is actually a program that allows you to provide live chat/support with your website visitors. This third party program actually provides quite a bit of details about your websites visitors ...