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- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+12Good tools on the list. I will try may be one out of it. Thanks for sharing :)
- annjay, on 01/02/2009, -0/+10Wonderful list. I must say that these are the great alternatives of paid analytic tools.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+6I gotta say I'm still a big fan of Google Analytics but some of these appear to be promising. I enjoy when you can see specific URL's that give you traffic rather than the homepage. On Google you kind of have to dig around for it.
- datagod, on 01/03/2009, -1/+7The Javascript based ones (i.e. Google Analytics) don't track bots and users who disable javascript, so I wrote my own:
http://mytinystats.com/reports/dashboard.php?TheDo ...
It works on PHP based sites...and is totally free for anyone who wants to join. - harmonix, on 01/03/2009, -0/+5These look cool for a blog or a small site, but no "real" web analyst would use them on an enterprise level for 2 reasons.
1. These have basic tools. Visits, pageviews, time on site, etc... All traditional traffic reports. Hard core analysts want to do multivariate testing, pathing, content testing and targeting, track a large number of customer variable and cross correlate them, etc... That type of stuff is more advanced technology that isn't going to be free anytime soon. (although Google is getting closer)
2. Hate to say it, but free software has "free" support. In other words, nothing. You can't hold a company's feet to the fire to preform and meet a service agreement when you don't have one. I hate paying for something as much as anyone else but the good thing about being a paying customer is that you can shout, whine and threaten to leave. - jaygeeze, on 01/02/2009, -0/+5It's great to see an increasing number of competition for analytics outside Google's analytics. With the recent buzz going on about how Google keeps track of so much of your data (though they haven't really shown that they're irresponsible stewards of this data), it's nice to have options in case you're not comfortable with Google analytics data-tracking.
I particularly found Pwik to be interesting, never encountered it 'til I saw this: it's open source and it's hosted on my server. This way I'll have the ultimate way of ensuring that my user's data isn't being mishandled by a third-party service. Installing this'll be my weekend project, so thanks! Yahoo! Site Explorer looks awesome as well, it's like a prettier-looking Google Analytics version. - openthink, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4Interesting stuff. Google is the obvious player so its good to see a bunch of growing alternatives...always good for competition.
- jgambleii, on 01/03/2009, -3/+6Did you know that there's porn on the internet?
- ers35, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3The stats on the main page of that site cannot be viewed unless the user has Javascript enabled.
- WhoDoneIt, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3I've been running Woopra on two of our websites and it shows some promise. There are still a few important things they need to include before it's awesome. One of them, which is a huge pain in the ass is not being able to set it up so that it doesn't track you when you go to your website. To me that's pretty important because I'm constantly working on these websites and hit them multiple times of the day. It would be nice to not have my tracking included in the stats.
Being able to speak real time with people on the website is kinda freaky. Not so sure I would ever do that. I do think I would want my clients to come back and not freak them out, having them know that I can see exactly when and where they are on my website.
But I am a fan of real time stats.
If you do want to try Woopra you probably should know that it takes some time to get approved as well. Some people are reporting weeks before they get the API number. - Eriksrocks, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3The best option is combining Google Analytics with a server-log-based option like AWStats. Both capture hits that the other one doesn't.
- rmxz, on 01/03/2009, -1/+4People underestimate "grep" and "sed" and "mysql" and "excel".
The analytics platform I've seen that was by *far* the most useful was one we used at the previous company that associated
"referring_url" -> "user cookie" and
"marketing program" -> "user cookie" (these were emails, affiliates, etc) and
"user cookie" -> "revenue from this user" and
"user cookie" -> "profit from this user"
MySQL could then easily produce actionable results like "this affiliate produced 30% less revenue yesterday than it's average for last week - let's call them" (and indeed we automated such reports), and Excel could translate this into pretty pictures where one axis was dollars that the CFO cared about when we wanted to justify marketing budgets.
I haven't seen a web-tool yet that could automate sending email alerts that we cared about as easily as a roll-you-own database could. - Enisity, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2Squarespace.com has all these features built in for all there users....(no i don't work for them, or affiliated)
- kevinzak21, on 01/04/2009, -0/+2Mint (http://haveamint.com) is a cheap alternative (albeit not completely free) that (in my opinion) outperforms all of these one hundred-fold.
- godsdead, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1PHP & MYsql For the ***** win =]
- laptopfanaddict, on 01/03/2009, -1/+2Excellent collection of tools! You can't beat FREE :-) Trying them all will take a while however :)
- cdtoad, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1Google Analytics now has on the fly segmentation. So you can slice and dice you're traffic and come up with some sort idea of what people are doing. However I still use Analog (http://www.analog.cx/) and have been using them for like 12 years. I use a combination of both so I can measure CLICK FRAUD. I have a few clients who are running PPC ads and Google Analytics is unable to see click bots & other fraudsters since the bots don't do javascript, where Analog shows raw files. Any MAJOR traffic gaps on the landing pages (since only the PPC campaigns land here) are red flags to me saying that somethings up. Caught one botnet who clicked on our ads several thousand times and caused a gap of about 98%. Google Analytics didn't register ANY page views on the landing page. Analog did.
Anyhow... if there was a system that could do both and doesn't cost more than my house for a years worth of service, I'd jump on it in a second. - andrewrjones, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1It would be nice if instead of all these 'Top 10' lists we could have some comparisons of two or three of the more popular tools.
- kid625, on 04/18/2009, -0/+0I use both Google Analytics and 4Q Iperceptions. 4Q is great, it tells you the qualitative aspect of analytics and user satisfaction in a nice dashboard. But definitely check out each applications' pros and cons before implementing web analytics. http://www.zoommetrix.com
- ktown3d, on 01/29/2009, -0/+0Good write up, been testing out Woopra for a little while now and there is definitely some promise to it.
- CarlT, on 03/05/2009, -0/+0Great article, some very interesting web tools there.
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http://www.lowerutilitybill.co.uk - callmevil, on 01/03/2009, -2/+1thanks for the list! ive been only using Y!'s till now
- totallyeggs, on 01/03/2009, -3/+2That tickled my ANALlytic anytime. Wooooh.
- abtarhar, on 01/03/2009, -5/+3i hate digg.
- goldmaverick, on 01/03/2009, -4/+1I've been using google analytics for my site http://www.sambuno.com and knowing that there is more tools, really helps
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