Excellent Toolbox for Website Analytics
Posted by øJoel R. published by §Damian M. on 4th Feb, 2010
Whether you own a site or you need to add analytics tools to your clients site, web analytics tools are a great way to jump-start and track the succession of your site. Not to mention it can also be great way to track hot-linking, who's linking in, resources, and more.
Understanding how your/client site is doing on various levels is a good way to outline the things you may need to improve on, and a great source for motivation. Below you'll find a set of useful tools that will allow you to track the analytics of any site. They're not all the same, and many have exclusive features, we suggest you try out a few and get a feel of which tools work best in the current stage of your site.
Get Clicky
Clicky is a very well organized and clean analytics tool. Clicky aims mostly at offering their services for small websites and blogs. You'll be able to work with features such as real-time visitor tracking and in-depth content analysis. They currently have over 179,572 web sites that use Clicky to monitor and analyze website data.
Mint
Mint is a self-hosted website analytics application with a fresh easy-to-use dashboard. Its interface very simple and offers the maximum space for viewing statistics. You're able to instantly track visits, referrers, popular pages and searches and view them in-depth.
FireStats
FireStats is a straight-forward web analytics program designed and written in PHP/MySQL. One of its most valuable features is the wide-range support of numerous platforms and set-ups such as C# sites, Django sites, Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, and much more.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is likely to be the most popular free versatile analytics tools for your website. You're able to custom report, scheduling, add other users so their able to view your stats, and more!
eLogic
eLogic is a great analytics tool that provides three levels of service based on your needs. They also have a free/basic plan that offers features that include referring sites, a history, demographics, etc.. For the more extensive tools, you'd have to subscribe to a paid plan. Asses your needs, and then make the right decision.
ClickFox
Clickfox has a patented and proven software that allows individuals or companies to transform existing customer data into true, objective insight by showing their customers step-by-step behavior within interactive systems and across the enterprise. This is more for the eCommerce sites as you can translate customer behavior and improve your products or purchasing experience.
LiveStats
LiveStats monitors your traffic in real-time no matter the size of your company or website. You'll be able to see every visitor currently browsing your site along with valuable information on how they’re browsing (what browser, operating system, screen size, etc.), as well as demographics.
Visistat
VisiStat is a powerful and easy-to-use website analytic tool that provides lead generation, and measures the effectiveness of your website performance, from pay-per-click & online marketing to search engine optimization.
Mochibot
MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool that enables the tracking and the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they're located on the web. If your SWF is on various platforms, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all platforms. Although we're dauning a new age where Flash will slowly die-off, who said this tool can't be useful?
CrazyEgg
CrazyEgg allows you to track, evaluate, and optimize your site based on where your visitors click. They employ the use of accurate heatmaps and confetti like views that quickly provide perspective into user behavior and habits.
Snoop
Snoop gives you real-time visitor tracking. This service relays the page-to-page activity of visitors directly to your desktop. Advanced features included are audible event triggering, name tag integration and more.
ClickTale
ClickTale essentially records every action and the activity of visitors. This tool allows the website owner to analyze a video footage to better understand the user behavior and enhance the sites usability.
Yahoo! Web Analytics
Yahoo! Web analytics is pretty their alternative to Google Analytics. It's a very leveled, web-powered third-party application that makes it easy accessing data with multiple user group access. You'll view analytics in the form of graphs, custom-designed (and printable) reports, and real-time data tracking for all of your needs.
Going Up
GoingUp! integrates various popular and mid-level analytics and search optimization tools within an easy-to-use web interface that lets you see just exactly how your site's performing in real-time.
Piwik
Piwik is fast and upcoming open source app that was built using PHP and MySQL. if you decide to use this application you'll have to install it on your own server and away you go. It's a fairly simple process and shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.
WordPress.com Stats
If you're running WordPress on your site and would like to have your site analytics delivered to your dashboard then you can use this plugin. It's a very simple, basic, straight to the point analytical web application.
Coremetrics
Coremetrics is a growing company that can provide you with a very accurate and complete record of visitor behavior—capturing every click of every visitor over time, and storing them in Coremetrics’ LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles within a secure database so that you're able to reference them when needed.
Webtrends Analytics
Webtrends Analytics version 9 can deliver one of the most accurate details of what’s happening on your web site, along with the data analysis and integration tools to help you turn even the largest stockpiles of online and offline records into understanding of your customers and business.
Sitemeter
Site Meter is another popular and free tool that provides comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools. You'll have instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience as well.
StatCounter
StatCounter is a free reliable, efficient, and most of all invisible web tracker that's highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. All you have to do is insert a piece of JavaScript code on the main web page you wish to track and you'll be able to analyze and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time.
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