tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805- 2008-09-24T12:13:36Z Comments for 10 Free, Innovative Web Analytics Tools Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805 2007-08-28T00:17:18Z 2007-12-16T23:07:54Z 10 Free, Innovative Web Analytics Tools digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Innovative_Web_Analytics_Tools'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; When most people think of free web analytics, they immediately think of Google Analytics. But there are many other free, innovative statistic tools available on the web. These tools measure everything from user behavior, to search engine traffic, to real-time visitor tracking, and more. The... Aidan Henry When most people think of free web analytics, they immediately think of Google Analytics. But there are many other free, innovative statistic tools available on the web. These tools measure everything from user behavior, to search engine traffic, to real-time visitor tracking, and more. The following ten products may provide valuable data when analyzing your website traffic.

Clicky

Clicky is a clean, all-encompassing analytics package. The service is tailored for small websites and blogs. It's easy to implement and contains advanced features such as real-time visitor tracking and in-depth content analysis.

Enquisite

Enquisite is focused specifically on incoming search engine and PPC traffic. It provides in-depth statistics including page position, landing pages, and specific geographic data.

CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg provides the ability to track, evaluate, and optimize your site based on where your visitors click. Heatmaps and overlays quickly provide perspective into user behavior and habits.

]]> 103bees

103bees is a real-time search engine analysis and statistics tool. It is highly focused on natural search engine traffic and the analysis of keywords and terms for SEO purposes.

Measure Map

Measure Map provides free, easy-to-understand web stats for bloggers. Currently the site isn't offering new accounts, but you can enter your e-mail for future notice. Owned by Google and some of its technology was ported to Google Analytics.

whos.amung.us

Whos.amung.us is an attractive, real-time visitor counter. It displays the total number of visitors on your site at any given moment. The easy-to-install widget requires no registration.

FeedBurner

Feedburner, as many already know, is tailored for blogs. In-depth feed statistics and general blog statistics are provided in a slick, intuitive interface. Now owned by Google.

Snoop

Snoop offers real-time visitor tracking. The service streams the page-to-page activity of visitors right to your desktop. Advanced features include audible event triggering and name tag integration.

ClickTale

ClickTale literally records the actions and activity of visitors. The website owner can then analyze the video footage to understand user behavior and increase the usability of the site.

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is essentially a social network for blogs. However, the service also provides valuable statistics; including onsite clicking habits and referral information. Owned by Yahoo.

Conclusion

There are many ways to monitor user activity beyond the capabilities of a generic stats package. The niche offerings listed above can provide insight and understanding, to help optimize your traffic and create a more compelling online experience.

Of course there are many other great Web analytics products out there - please list your favorites in the comments.

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22792 Comment from Allen Stern on 2007-08-27 Allen Stern http://www.centernetworks.com Nice post Aidan - but two corrections - clicktale and crazyegg aren't analytics tools - they are testing tools.

]]> 2007-08-28T01:14:46Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22793 Comment from half-geek on 2007-08-27 half-geek http://www.half-geek.com Go Clicky (and Sean)! I have been a clicky user for a number of months now and they are a great solution for relatively low traffic sites. Sean has done a great job.

BTW I second Allen on his call about crazyegg and clicktale- these are (strictly speaking)web analytics tools.

Also- if you are going to call crazyegg a webanalytics tool, where is RobotReplay.com on this list?

]]> 2007-08-28T01:31:55Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22794 Comment from half-geek on 2007-08-27 half-geek http://www.half-geek.com Oops major typo in my comment what I meant to say was:

BTW I second Allen on his call about crazyegg and clicktale- these are (strictly speaking) NOT web analytics tools.

]]> 2007-08-28T01:34:41Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22795 Comment from Sean on 2007-08-27 Sean http://getclicky.com Thanks for the mention - just to clarify, Clicky is only free for relatively low traffic sites (less than 1,000 daily page views). We operate on the "freemium" model, and offer paid upgrades for users who want additional features or have higher traffic sites.

]]> 2007-08-28T01:41:53Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22796 Comment from Aidan Henry on 2007-08-27 Aidan Henry http://www.readwriteweb.com Hey Allen,

Thanks for the kind words.

Perhaps the term 'data collection' - whether it be quantitative or qualitative - may have been more suitable. In any case, all the tools mentioned above provide an innovative way to gather valuable information about the users visiting and using your website.

Cheers,
Aidan

]]> 2007-08-28T02:19:21Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22797 Comment from NoteSake on 2007-08-27 NoteSake http://www.notesake.com We at http://notesake.com have been using Clicky since our launch. We love the spy tool and the % counters on the site. We plan on putting a large flat screen monitor on our wall just to have the spy feature displayed. We highly recommend it.

Ian Smith
co-founder of http://NoteSake.com

]]> 2007-08-28T02:50:18Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22798 Comment from Webanalyticsbook on 2007-08-27 Webanalyticsbook http://htttp://www.webanalyticsbook.com If you need a few more...I summarized 150 -200 web analytics solutions on my site.

]]> 2007-08-28T03:37:34Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22799 Comment from Bruce from The Bookshop Blog on 2007-08-27 Bruce from The Bookshop Blog http://www.BookshopBlog.com
Thanks a bunch for those. I presently just use StatCounter. I have been pleased with them but have been considering trying out a few new things. These will get some attention.

]]> 2007-08-28T03:48:18Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22800 Comment from HighFivez.com on 2007-08-27 HighFivez.com http://www.highfivez.com Nice list. I really like CrazyEgg.

]]> 2007-08-28T04:17:12Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22801 Comment from Hovhannes Avoyan on 2007-08-27 Hovhannes Avoyan http://mon.itor.us Also take a look at Mon.itor.Us free website monitoring and analytic service. It shows 3 type of metrics on a personal Ajax dashboard: external uptime/performance, internal server utilization metrics, and web traffic. Having all that metrics combined in one place opens new analytic opportunities like understanding your website performance dependency from load.

]]> 2007-08-28T04:38:50Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22802 Comment from Mikayel on 2007-08-27 Mikayel http://mon.itor.us You can check this tool(http://mon.itor.us) also, it provides real-time tracking of visits and pageviews, Top 10 countries, cities, browsers, OS, referrers.

]]> 2007-08-28T05:47:46Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22803 Comment from rafal on 2007-08-28 rafal http://blog.rafaljanik.com/ You should try www.stat24.com - real time tracking with pagevievs, visits, cookies, geolocation, clicktrough, and with ClickMap on your site.

]]> 2007-08-28T07:26:01Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22804 Comment from Pascal on 2007-08-28 Pascal The open source web analytics phpMyVisites is simple yet very powerful :) It has a heatmap feature in the last version!! phpMyVisites

]]> 2007-08-28T08:50:28Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22805 Comment from SearchEngines WEB on 2007-08-28 SearchEngines WEB http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ Statcounter and Sitemeter are certainly top notch and should be included.

Although they might not be innovative - they offer and unprecedented degree of valuable information for SEO

]]> 2007-08-28T10:00:15Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22806 Comment from ru on 2007-08-28 ru http://www.lyrics-ru.com nice are certainly unprecedented
http://www.lyrics-ru.com

]]> 2007-08-28T10:36:09Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22807 Comment from Steven Finch on 2007-08-28 Steven Finch http://www.crenk.com This is not a bad list. But there seems to be a problem with the listings of Crazyegg and clicktale. Also Mashable has done a very comprehensive list. Might want to check it out!

]]> 2007-08-28T11:59:22Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22808 Comment from Dillon Thomas on 2007-08-28 Dillon Thomas I recommend statcounter.
(It's 24 yr old founder recently won BusinessWeek's young entrepreneur of the year 2007)

]]> 2007-08-28T12:20:27Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22809 Comment from Kashif on 2007-08-28 Kashif http://www.chowrangi.com I am using MyBlogLog and CrazyEgg along with Google Analytics on my blogs. Please note that free editions of MyBlogLog and CrazyEgg have restricted functionality.

]]> 2007-08-28T12:59:41Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22810 Comment from naser on 2007-08-28 naser http://atunu.blogspot.com Thanks for guiding me towards Clicky. It looks like an awesome service. I'm trying it out right now.

]]> 2007-08-28T13:02:03Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22811 Comment from John Webber on 2007-08-28 John Webber http://www.adstreaminc.com Thanks for the list! I have been using 103bees for a while now and it is great.

]]> 2007-08-28T14:07:28Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22812 Comment from Girish Kulkarni on 2007-08-28 Girish Kulkarni http://girish.50webs.com Although FeedBurner is good for burning and distributing feeds, I think StatCounter is far better in terms of ease of use and results. I surprised to see it didn't appear in your ten.

]]> 2007-08-28T14:09:03Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22813 Comment from Mahadzir on 2007-08-28 Mahadzir http://www.nurusyifa.com Lovely straight forward moved by telling us all these priceless news and info.
YOU ROCK
from Mahadzira Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

]]> 2007-08-28T14:09:19Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22814 Comment from Tara Anderson on 2007-08-28 Tara Anderson http://iquitforlijit.typepad.com/i_quit_for_lijit/ Just wanted to add Lijit to the list. In addition to page views, we offer free stats that show detailed info about the searches being done on your site, the searches that have brought people to you and the searches that have returned no results. These stats are useful if you're interested in getting a better sense of your audience and what they're looking for on your site.

]]> 2007-08-28T16:39:13Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22815 Comment from RustyS on 2007-08-28 RustyS I keep hoping Microsoft will eventually release whatever they've done with the acquired DeepMetrix system. I had some clients who used that tool in the past and (at that time) was extremely impressed with it, particularly with its scalability across multiple sites. Microsoft and Google both snatched up the two most well-rounded players in this market at the time (IMO) in Urchin and Deepmetrix.

I wish Google would follow through on their promise to release another stand-alone software version of Urchin. The old platform is still excellent and great for comparing apples-to-apples historic trends with log files (something tag-based tracking can't do) but it definitely could use some of the advancements Google Analytics has received.

]]> 2007-08-28T16:40:34Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22816 Comment from Home owner insurance company on 2007-08-28 Home owner insurance company http://myhomeinsurance.blogspot.com Cool Information!

]]> 2007-08-29T06:31:31Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22817 Comment from searchspiderz on 2007-08-28 searchspiderz hi
thanks for the info..
pupil like u should stand up for better innovation for web marketing.
searchspiderz always welcome u:)

]]> 2007-08-29T06:44:25Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22818 Comment from Derek Anderson on 2007-08-29 Derek Anderson http://www.widgetslab.com/ Thanks Tara.
I was skimming these comments to make damn sure Lijit was mentioned. Very surprised it isn't mentioned in the actual post though. I think a correction needs to be made.

]]> 2007-08-29T14:20:31Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22819 Comment from Chris O'Sullivan on 2007-08-30 Chris O'Sullivan http://www.thechrisoshow.com I'm a big fan of Ice Rocket's Tracker. They also come through really fast whenever I have a problem.

]]> 2007-08-30T10:37:47Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22820 Comment from Chris O'Sullivan on 2007-08-30 Chris O'Sullivan http://www.thechrisoshow.com Whoops! Bad markup in previous comment post.

Find ice rocket at http://tracker.icerocket.com

]]> 2007-08-30T10:39:51Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:22821 Comment from Richard from GoStats on 2007-09-05 Richard from GoStats http://gostats.com GoStats is an option worthy of mention.

]]> 2007-09-05T10:29:32Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2805-comment:42849 Comment from Fatih Nakış on 2007-12-18 Fatih Nakış http://www.fatihnakis.com Thanks for the list! I have been using 103bees for a while now and it is great

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