Web Analytics

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I have been trying out all the various web analytics programs for a while. Google Analytics has some very robust features, but I don’t like the interface for it. For me it gives way to much information and it seems like it is kind of a pain to access the information that I do want.

I also recently started using the ShortStat plug-in for Wordpress. It is very easy to use and get to since all I had to do was install the plug-in on my blog. But the numbers it gives seem a bit unrealistic to me and it doesn’t seem like it is really actively being developed anymore.

I have heard amazing things about Mint, but I don’t have the traffic to justify spending money on it yet.

Then I found Clicky. I figured I would give it a try because I liked the screenshots on the home page. After I signed up, I copied a bit of code to my Wordpress template and waited a couple of days. After that I went and logged into Clicky and the interface is very nice. The numbers it gives me seem very reasonable and I like all the information it gives me about each unique visitor. Some of the information it tells me about each visitor is the location of their IP address, browser and operating system, how many actions and how much time they spent on the site and how they got there.

The paid version of Clicky is very reasonably priced, though I don’t need it yet. When you pay for Clicky you get Spy which is real time analytics of your website and you can basically see what users are doing right at any given moment. You also get and RSS feed so you can see your stats through your favorite feed reader however often you set it to update.

So if you are in the market for free web analytics, I highly recommend Clicky for it’s ease of use and great features. I used to use Performancing Metrics before they were sold to another company, it appears as though Performancing has teamed up with Clicky to offer pMetrics. I am most likely going to see if I can move my account over to pMetrics because they are offering 12 months of free premium access for the first 100 people to review it. So I would recommend signing up with pMetrics and writing a review. The community around Performancing has always been great.

Update: Just changed my metrics over to pMetrics because I really like the community around it and the fact that I will be getting a free year of premium service for this review. I really do highly recommend pMetrics.

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