I need the following tools so I know more about the visitors who visit my website.

The tools I will talk about today are:

• Website Analytics Software
• Site Uptime Services

Website Analytics Software - This will give me the most important information about my websites, being referrers, browser, searched keyword, bounce rate and much more.

I found the following tools below useful for this task.

The following Website Analytics Software, I would recommend are listed below:

• Google Analytics - Free Program, Advanced Analytics one of the best.
  
• SiteMeter.com - Free or $6.95/mo - This one is good, seems to be used by popular websites.
• StatCounter.com - Free or $9/mo

I will be using Google Analytics & SiteMeter for $6.95/mo.

These are the TWO Website Analytics Software, that I will be using.

Site Uptime Services (Website Monitoring) - Since, we make money on the internet. We need to make sure, our websites are always online 24/7. These services will help you by automatically monitoring your site uptime for your website. They will ping your domain name from several locations to make sure, they are all accessible.

They will also send you an SMS message if your website is down. This is very vital information and comes in handy, when you are not around.

The following Site Uptime Services, I would recommend are listed below:
(They are in no specific order)

• Montastic.com - Free Website Monitoring, Monitor 100 sites for free.
• Host-Tracker.com - Free, or $4.99/mo 10min Intervals, $29.99/mo 1min Intervals.
• SiteUptime.com - Free or $5/mo 5-15min Intervals, +$2/mo for 2min intervals
• BasicState.com - Free 15 Intervals
• Alertra.com - Expensive Pricing, Heard their pretty good though.
• Mon.itor.us - FREE
• Site24×7.com - $4-6/mo 5min Intervals
• HyperSpin.com - $12/mo 1min Intervals
• Pingdom.com - $9.95/mo 1-60 Intervals

What I Use

For Web Analytics Software, I personally will use Google Analytics and SiteMeter.com for $6.95/mo.

For Site Uptime Services, I will sign up with Montastic, Host-Tracker, SiteUptime, Basic State, Mon.itor.us,  HyperSpin, Site24×7.com. Mainly the free versions.

Paid Versions will be: SiteUptime $4.99+$2 = $6.99 only. An will sign up w/ the FREE ones.