New Feature: Paid Traffic

Update: How is Paid Traffic Determined? (from Statcounter Support)

Today we launch a new feature on StatCounter – Paid Traffic. If you use paid advertising services such as Google Adwords or Bing Ads to promote your website, this new stat will give you an overview of the traffic you are receiving from your advertising spend.

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Paid clicks (i.e. clicks to your site from pay-per-click advertising) are grouped together by IP address. The IP address which has generated the largest number of paid clicks to your site is placed at the top.

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Let’s take a closer look at the available information using the above example.

  • Icons: On the left hand side you will see icons representing the browser, operating system and country of the visitor. In this case, the paid clicks were from a US visitor using the Safari browser and iOS operating system.
  • Paid Clicks and Page Views: In this case there are the same number (108) of paid clicks and page views from the IP Address. This means that each time the visitor clicked an advert for your site, they arrived at your site but then did not explore any further pages. This could be an indication of a poor landing page i.e. the initial page your visitor saw did not attract them to visit any further pages of your site.
  • Visit Time: For visitors who have explored further than the initial landing page, this column will show the average visit time over all of their paid visits to your site.

Detailed View

Clicking on the plus icon: plus-icon gives you a detailed breakdown of each click:

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This shows that all 5 clicks came from Google, and all 5 were for the exact same search; ‘lock smith’. Note that 4 of the paid clicks resulted in only 1 page view each. This may indicate that the user visited your site but then decided to ‘bounce’ and immediately leave your site (rather then exploring more pages) and click on some other Google results instead.

From here, you can continue to drill down on the IP Address by clicking on the magnifier icon: mag where you can get a more detailed view on the exact timestamps of each hit as well as the other pages the visitor navigated to on your site.

Click Fraud

StatCounter is often used to identify instances of Click Fraud. We hope that the new Paid Traffic stat will make click fraud detection even easier for our members. For example, high numbers of paid clicks from a single IP address could indicate click fraud, especially if the visitor only ever visits the initial landing page of your site.

NOTE: Click Fraud occurs when individuals or automated computers click on a PPC ad without having any interest in the product/service advertised. Click Fraud is performed, instead, simply to generate a cost for the advertiser (without any chance of making a sale) and consume the advertiser’s budget.

Conclusion

We hope that this new stat gives our members a quick and easy way to review the return they are getting for their spend on Google Adwords and Bing Ads.

Please let us know your thoughts on this new feature. How are you using this stat? Can we improve it? What other ad networks would you like us to include? Any other questions or comments? Please post below.

114 Comments

  1. the feature I was looking for, thanks for adding it free of cost , I have a suggestion for you to add Chitika,infolinks if possible

  2. Great feature and post. Thanks for the hard work and making our life a notch easier.

    1. Awesome feature! I think my work load just got decreased substantially. I have waiting for a long time for such super useful add-on.

  3. Hey guys another great feature added it it will come in very handy for my business when using pay per click.

    I also like the time feature showing how long a user spends after clicking the page ad.

  4. Are you sure about your Click Fraud détection ? this is just an IP control ?

    1. I’m sorry – I don’t understand your question. This stat will help you to identify any click fraud that is happening on your site.

  5. We hope Statcounter will add a feature that will track conversions in the future. We will be most willing to pay for it. Anyway, cheers for the new Paid Traffic feature.

    1. Thanks for your feedback. I’ve sent you a follow-up email in relation to conversion tracking. The filter feature http://blog.statcounter.com/2013/01/new-feature-filter/ is a powerful way to view the traffic that is and is not leading to converting traffic.

  6. Nice Thx Admin,
    I like
    StatCounter

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  7. This is a great feature, although I have no paid advertising to promote my site. I like statcounter for the details of statistics and keeping stable all these years. Cheer!

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  8. Hey guys another great feature added it it will come in very handy for my business when using pay per click.

    I also like the time feature showing how long a user spends after clicking the page ad.

  9. Great addition to have at our disposal, really appreciate the new stats. I realize it’s brand new, however once it’s stable it would be nice to have the ability to sort these results… chronologically for example to gauge how campaign changes might be affecting click traffic, etc. Just my initial 2 cents… great job though nonetheless! Thank you very much for the new feature!!

  10. Great , Its a very nice feature, really will be useful (पीएनआर स्थिति की जाँच)
    Thanks very much

  11. Great feature for me to view my adwords and ad ..

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  12. I’m not paying for an ad campaign of any sort. I have no paid advertising to promote my site.

    However, this new feature lists a number of Adsense ads that were hosted on my web site.

    I suppose there are some bugs to be worked out?

    1. Hi Jim,

      Thanks for the feedback – I’ve sent you an email to get more info about this.

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  13. Great new feature! Looking forward to my next campaign now that I can truly see that people have been visiting…

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  14. This is great stuff. My spending on adverts has long needed to be sorted out like this.
    Thanks
    NJS

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  15. Hi,

    Does this set up automatically or what do I have to do to link it to my adwords account?

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    2. me much like feature this new, me hope would as a changing the value Sort classes of me up extents cao the new, tiny mong of the Program would not support and improved Thiện better, for you can not until with all the people,
      me non lam gi next to receive giao info better

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