All website analytical tools have their pros and cons, and many people use more than one to track their website’s visitors and gather other important data. With that in mind, I’ve put together this list of some of the best.
All of these web applications offer a free service; while some are completely free, others offer a premium account as well.
There is an exception. I’ve included the Mint and Yahoo analytical software packages in this list due to their popularity, although they are not free.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is probably the most well known and used analytical tool.
“Google Analytics now makes the features that experts demand easy to use for everyone. Gain rich insights into your website traffic with Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reporting, Motion Charts, and more.”
Yahoo Analytics
“Yahoo! Web Analytics is an enterprise site analytics tool that provides real-time insight into visitor behavior on your website. With powerful and flexible tools and dashboards, Yahoo! Web Analytics helps online marketers and website designers enhance the visitor experience, increase sales and reduce marketing costs.”
Compete
“Compete has the largest integrated behavioral and attitudinal online panel of its kind. Turn to Compete for the accuracy, insights and depth you need to beat your competition. “
Going Up
“GoingUp’s dashboard can be customized to show relevant information about your site’s performance. Show only the information you want and add extra metrics to track at any time.”
“Find out about your visitors, where they came from, what pages they visit and what technologies they use in an easy to use dashboard system. With GoingUp! you’ll know what’s up.”
Piwik
“Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.”
w3counter
w3counter.com offers another free analytical tool-set. Packages are available also for webmasters who wish to have a PRO account, and one of the features of the PRO account is the option of not having a counter on your website which is available for the public to view. Yes, free account holders must have a counter visible to the public on their website being tracked.
Get Clicky
“Clicky Web Analytics is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site’s traffic in real time.”
Woopra
If it never becomes the coolest analytics software to ever hit the internet, it sure sounds like it was on the way.
“Woopra is a revolutionary Web analytics tool designed from the ground up to break all the rules for website statistics and monitoring. Woopra gives you the information you need to know right now about live traffic on your site. While the visitor moves through your site, you can track their path instantly.
Split into two services, a desktop client program and a web server application, Woopra radically decreases the load on network resources, and harnesses the power of desktop processing to display graphic charts, graphics, and analysis. Woopra Plugins, which integrate Woopra’s web analytics into website and blog databases and templates, generates even more information for the webmaster or blogger about their site’s traffic and usage.
With an open API, Plugin capability, and a wide range of extensible potential, Woopra delivers the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry, and does it within an unmatched user interface designed to be aesthetically pleasing as well as highly intuitive. But Woopra is more than simply statistics.
Woopra puts faces on the numbers. Regular commenters and registered members become names rather than numbers, which allows tracking of individual behavior and site usage over time. An easy-to-use web analytics panel allows comparative segmentation by an innovative timeline, giving you information you need for the day, month, last month, last quarter, last year, and more. An innovative live chat feature allows instant communication between the web master and the site visitor, without the visitor installing anything, breaking the web barrier.”
SiteMeter
“Site Meter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With our detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.”
Mint
Mint is not free, but they offer a license for their analytical software for a one time flat fee of $30.
“Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.”
Wassup Wordpress Plugin
If you’re a Wordpress CMS user, then I’ve personally found this analytical plugin to be fantastic in its speed and accuracy. Not only that, but the plugin gives you an enormous amount of information you can use for the benefit of your website. Oh yeah, did I mention it’s all in real-time?
Stat Counter
“A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!”
Go Stats
“Packed with lots of great features, including information on page views, return visitors, and page popularity, this free hit counter is a quick and easy to use tool for determining how many people visit your website. So if you have a limited or even non-existent web stats budget, than the GoStats free hit counter is ideal for you.”
Fuse Stats
“FuseStats is the comprehensive web statistics tool for businesses or personal sites, big or small. Whether you have a personal blog, or a large scale e-commerce site, we have something for you.”
Shiny Stat
“Thanks to the continuous enhancement of its web stats and free hit counter platform, ShinyStat has consolidated its international reputation in the area of Web Statistics and Web Analytics tools. “
PMetrics
“pMetrics gives you unprecedented detail on every visitor to your web site.
Tag them by IP address, or use our custom data tracking to automatically name them for you!”
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