Two Great Free Web Analytics Tools (Besides Google)
June 2nd 2009 10:14 PM
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Google Analytics is an excellent web analytics tool and does a very good job for most websites. A gap in Google’s offering is the lack of real-time results. This can be a problem for websites with high volumes and daily campaigns where every hour counts. Web analysts who are anxious to receive recent data can get frustrated.
Here are two great free web analytics tools that complement Google with real-time web analytics capabilities that I use:
Clicky Web Analytics
Clicky is “simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site’s traffic in real time.” It is a clean and simple to use web analytics solution that provides real-time analytics (several minute delay).
Clicky is a well rounded web analytics tool with campaign management, goal measurement, real-time visitor monitoring, and twitter integration. It works very well in combination with Google for a more robust analytics offering.
Woopra Web Analytics
Woopra currently ranks #1 in realtime web analytics on Google Search, and is promising a big impact on free web analytics tools. To quote directly from their website, “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.”
Woopra Web Analytics is a great complement to Google Analytics, try it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
As you can see, it provides a very attractive and intuitive user interface, and looks to be a promising player in the free web analytics market.
I find using both of these tools in conjuction with Google Analytics provides all the functionality needed for web analytics in most cases.
What is your favored Web Analytics Tool? What are its advantages over Google? What do you think about Clicky and Woopra?
