Hi Cameron, Thanks for this great list. We report on metrics for our clients all the time so this comprehensive list is extremely helpful. I wanted to make you aware of another social popularity tracking tool that we developed called the "Webbed-O-Meter". It combines 16 different consumer generated sites and weighs them on order of importance. The results is a combined score 1-100 with 100 being the best. Give it a try! http://www.webbedmarketing.com/webbedometer Thanks Amy
Mike Andrew
· 11 months ago
Thank you for a great list, I find this information very helpful.
Keep up the good work, it is appreciated.
FockCrisis
· 11 months ago
Great list! I would have included another free analytic tool: Twatch. www.tracewatch.com Disclosure: I have nothing to do with them, I´m just a happy customer :)
Mike McCurdy
· 11 months ago
1) You don't know how to alphabetize? 2) You didn't list Google Analytics? 3) OpenTracker sucks
Miramon
· 11 months ago
What about specifically those tools and services for competitive analysis, so you can see how well your competitor is doing with keywords, what sites and networks he is advertising on, when he starts, stops, or alters a campaign, and so on?
Sohaib Athar
· 11 months ago
OpenWebAnalytics ( openwebanalytics.com ) is another great php based OSS solution that is embeddable in your own code and also works as a wordpress plugin out-of-the-box.
Fareed
· 11 months ago
A similar list covering mobile analytic tools would be great.
M2Mz
· 10 months ago
So which one do you recommend? I can't try each one out for myself.
Anteck Web Design
· 10 months ago
Great list, but a recommendation or round-up would be good. There are WAY TO MANY to try out!
Which ones have which features? and so on...
Cheers,
A.
Etech
· 10 months ago
Personally I've been using Google Analytics since it's initial release. My latest website (www.ventrilo.com.au) uses it on every page and I get very detailed results.
Google gets my pick.
Etech
taufik
· 10 months ago
good post, chapman. but if we will used 3 or more analytic tool, we will confused. because one analytic tool with other analytic tools is not same result. thanks for your info. keep writing.
Himanshu Khurana
· 10 months ago
Wow! very useful collection indeed. Thanks for sharing.
shishira
· 10 months ago
hey nice list thanks my all time fav though has been reinvigorate http://www.reinvigorate.net/ its got excellent stat analysis and also a downloadable app which shows u the visitors live
midnightklein
· 10 months ago
Question: If i was just doing SEO for 2-4 months (basically a beginner), what would be the best options from this list? (I can't try all of these since I'm not yet full time on SEO. Thanks in advance for any reply.
Screen Sleuth
· 10 months ago
Amazing post, lots of great info. It's worth noting that most of these require some basic SEO knowledge to implement any changes needed for these stats to matter.
Anderson
· 10 months ago
1) You forgot Nuconomy.
2) Read comment 22. (midnightklein) . Complete idiots are funny.
JAWStats web analytics
· 10 months ago
Thank you very much, Cameron, for including JAWStats in your article.
w1cked
· 10 months ago
It's a great list, but I'm surprised to see two important newcomers missing.
Both are bringing something new and exiting to the mix, namely insights in human language and formulation of data in to single value. Both have quite different approach to this, but seem to aim for the same goal.
Nuconomy and StatsIt seem to be very comprehensive Web Analytics services in overall, offering much of what Omniture is offering in their SiteCatalyst package.
Ian
· 10 months ago
Hi, great list, although Crazy Egg should definitely be included in this list.
Thanks for this list. It should save me a lot of time and effort. I use statcounter at the moment but I will taking a look at some of these. Never heard of some of them. : )
Social Media Monitoring
· 10 months ago
Great List! we use a lot them already and now I am excited to check out some of the ones I was unaware of.
Bob
· 10 months ago
No offense but this is a terrible list. I mean, there are a lot of good products on here, but you also listed a bunch of no-names that NO ONE uses, like mviSPY - give me a friggin break, taht's the SECOND tracker you list? NO ONE uses that! It's a piece of junk and it costs almost $100/mo for just 30,000 daily page views. Only a sucker would sign up for that. Why is that the SECOND item in your list? That's just inexcusable.
Gabriel Topala
· 10 months ago
Excellent post! I really enjoyed it. I will be back for more! I'm using both Google Analitics and Clicky (paid) Sincerely, Gabriel Topala
sky
· 10 months ago
wow..there are so many Analytics Toolbox..that's make me confused to choose..
could you tell me,which toolbox should i choose??
i want the best toolbox.. ^_^
Billy Ye
· 10 months ago
Most web analytic tools are going to perform the same functions whether they are free or cost a fortune. What's important is to work with individuals who know how to analyze the data, and extract answers to tough business questions.
den
· 10 months ago
There is another tool called etracker webcontrolling (www.etracker.com). It is very popular in europe and claims to have 60.000+ users.
Richard Swart
· 10 months ago
Cameron - thanks for including our various packages available from www.elogicwebsolutions.com. We are getting hundreds of downloads a day and would also appreciate any feedback from other webmasters on how to improve our projects.
Ramon
· 10 months ago
Thank you very much for sharing these great tools ;) I'm planning to test couple of them tonight ;)
Awesome list of links. This is one of the few pages I have recently visited due to the hq of the information supplied.
Cheers!
Murray
Murray
· 10 months ago
Awesome list of links. This is one of the few pages I have recently visited due to the hq of the information supplied.
Cheers!
Murray
web analytics tool
· 10 months ago
What about Coremetrics web analytics, you don't mention anything.
web analytics tool
· 10 months ago
What about Coremetrics web analytics, you don't mention anything.
Kelly
· 9 months ago
This list has become very useful for me to find out what's available out there that I can use for my own site.
Good job!
James
· 9 months ago
Thanks for the great links. Very much appreciated.
James
· 9 months ago
Oh yeah, Mashable is fantastic. But so is, Toy Room
c ostini
· 9 months ago
My question is about stat counter. Is there any law against giving false knowledge about a counter for types of visitors, returning visitors, or unique in nature? I have many businesses and would like to know where is the line drawn for the the advantages these powerful companies have when it comes to false general knowledge or creating fake companies with ultimate power?? Thanks for your time
Rebecca Zwar
· 8 months ago
Thorough list. Personally, I use a combo of Click and Google Analytics on my sites. Love Clicky's real-time feedback, but have to stick with Analytics as well as the old standby.
Knowing alexa
· 7 months ago
Alexa is one of the most known names in the web circuit. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fortunehotels.in Alexa's numerous features aimed at the benefit of the users have contributed immensely to its rapid expansion and ever growing popularity.
Fred
· 7 months ago
A new cool site which estimates your or your vistors webiste value and daily visitors http://www.webtraffic24.com
LavaIP
· 6 months ago
Really useful list - thank you very much for putting this together. What do you think of the new Google Analytics interface? It makes the links between Adwords and Alaytics disappear, so I won't be switching to the new one just yet.
statsMan
· 5 months ago
All of these do some level of visitor tracking, but not only go to the visit level to provide a complete set of detail. I like mvispy.com for that reason. It is not expensive and has a 30-day free trial to get started with. It gives me more data about the actual visitor and their visit and I can get Events Triggers based on any criteria that I want.
design nh
· 6 months ago
Fantastic list. My question would be would there be a good compliment to google analytics?
design nh
· 6 months ago
Webstats PRO looks great. I really like the path analysis feature it offers.
jazib
· 6 months ago
as i know u have to remove clickdensity in the list because it is used for tracking good adsense ads placement :D
Thank You very much, i'll try combined it. This is really good list & very useful information for newbie webmaster like me. Keep up the good work mashable team, it is appreciated.
John Douglas
· 4 months ago
The ananyltis market has changed so much that I find it difficult to look at your article of January and beleive it is still current. I would love to see you do another review of the market. I look at several of your recommendations and notices several sites have greatly improved and added features www.mvispy.com
Would love to see yhou update this article
Vikasseo
· 4 months ago
Seem U put quite a hard work in collecting these link information . Well done Thanks Well u can use stats by enabling plesk-stat/webstat on server. Thanks
Bruno
· 4 months ago
Why didnt you mention Feedjit? I find Feedjit one of the best real time tracking sites!!!
brettburky
· 2 months ago
This is a great list of analytic tools.
brettburky
· 2 months ago
I love the list. I have gone through each of them. Some of course just a little too much money. But i would love an answer if anybody could tell me. I am looking for a better way to make reports. Something that will automatically send out reports monthly on criteria I constitute. Too many clients to be making reports the way i am doing it.
I honestly would be willing to pay for mentoring to become better at web analytics. I am pretty good with other aspects of the web, but not a big fan of analytics.
If you are a pro please I welcome you to contact me. Come to www.twothink.com and contact me please.
To Cameron- I apologize if this is unacceptable to ask for help. If so delete it.
thanks,
Brett
Widget Tracker
· 2 months ago
Check out the new features added to mviSPY! I went to www.mvispy.com and viewed their latest news release. They have added PPC tracking, pages viewed and are working on creating a tracking system for widgets. I see that they are actively putting together tracking scripts for Kickapps widgets.
Ginote
· 2 months ago
I was able to get the traffic super high and fast using social groups http://bit.ly/m9GLh
All Comments
Thanks for this great list. We report on metrics for our clients all the time so this comprehensive list is extremely helpful.
I wanted to make you aware of another social popularity tracking tool that we developed called the "Webbed-O-Meter". It combines 16 different consumer generated sites and weighs them on order of importance. The results is a combined score 1-100 with 100 being the best. Give it a try! http://www.webbedmarketing.com/webbedometer
Thanks
Amy
Keep up the good work, it is appreciated.
Disclosure: I have nothing to do with them, I´m just a happy customer :)
2) You didn't list Google Analytics?
3) OpenTracker sucks
so you can see how well your competitor is doing with keywords, what sites
and networks he is advertising on, when he starts, stops, or alters a
campaign, and so on?
Which ones have which features? and so on...
Cheers,
A.
Google gets my pick.
Etech
because one analytic tool with other analytic tools is not same result.
thanks for your info. keep writing.
my all time fav though has been reinvigorate http://www.reinvigorate.net/ its got excellent stat analysis and also a downloadable app which shows u the visitors live
what would be the best options from this list? (I can't try all of these
since I'm not yet full time on SEO.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
some basic SEO knowledge to implement any changes needed for these stats to
matter.
2) Read comment 22. (midnightklein) . Complete idiots are funny.
Nuconomy - http://www.nuconomy.com
and
StatsIt Web Analytics - http://www.statsit.com
Both are bringing something new and exiting to the mix, namely insights in human language and formulation of data in to single value. Both have quite different approach to this, but seem to aim for the same goal.
Nuconomy and StatsIt seem to be very comprehensive Web Analytics services in overall, offering much of what Omniture is offering in their SiteCatalyst package.
http://crazyegg.com/
still using the old
StatsCounter,
SiteMeter...
Here is statistics
of analytical tools
usage:
http://www.sitonomy.com/alternatives/stats-tools
effort. I use statcounter at the moment but I will taking a
look at some of these. Never heard of some of them. : )
a lot them already
and now I am excited
to check out some of
the ones I was
unaware of.
is a terrible list.
I mean, there are a
lot of good products
on here, but you
also listed a bunch
of no-names that NO
ONE uses, like
mviSPY - give me a
friggin break,
taht's the SECOND
tracker you list? NO
ONE uses that! It's
a piece of junk and
it costs almost
$100/mo for just
30,000 daily page
views. Only a sucker
would sign up for
that. Why is that
the SECOND item in
your list? That's
just inexcusable.
more!
I'm using both Google Analitics and Clicky (paid)
Sincerely,
Gabriel Topala
many Analytics
Toolbox..that's make
me confused to
choose..
could you tell
me,which toolbox
should i choose??
i want the best
toolbox.. ^_^
tools are going to
perform the same
functions whether
they are free or
cost a fortune.
What's important is
to work with
individuals who know
how to analyze the
data, and extract
answers to tough
business questions.
I'm planning to test couple of them tonight ;)
Piwik.org
Who's Hot at Alenty.com
Cheers!
Murray
Cheers!
Murray
Good job!
thanks for sharing any ways good posts
http://www.uniqueforex.info
Would love to see yhou update this article
Well done Thanks
Well u can use stats by enabling plesk-stat/webstat on server.
Thanks
I honestly would be willing to pay for mentoring to become better at web analytics. I am pretty good with other aspects of the web, but not a big fan of analytics.
If you are a pro please I welcome you to contact me. Come to www.twothink.com and contact me please.
To Cameron- I apologize if this is unacceptable to ask for help. If so delete it.
thanks,
Brett