Track visitors with PHP

Tracking our websites visitors is a very important step if youre serious enough about analyzing your traffic and optimizing your pages to get the most of your visitors. There are many reasons why you should think of implementic tracking scripts (its crucial to know where your traffic is coming from and where it goes, wha people search, how long they stay etc.), you could increase sales, you could optimize your pages to increase page hits, you could make lots of changes to increase your Adsense profits and the list goes on and on. You name it.In this tutorial we will create a MySql based tracking script written in PHP which will do a simple task - store each visitor that browsed our page with IP, hours, dates, browser types, reffering url and visited page.