Found an interesting blog-post on Techchrunch today. It seems that the market for free yet complex traffic analysis tools has a few new serious competitors. This probably means that we’ll see even more features from the free analysis tools in the future.
This prompted me to do a quick writeup on the different free traffic analysis tools out there:
Woopra is the latest player on the scene and in the words of Techcrunch is ‘Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time…’ – sounds good to me…
(update: Woopra is currently invitation-only)
Google Analytics is probably one of the biggest players in the market. Analytics has a really nice flashy (flex?) interface, but has a 1 day delay on traffic data.
is designed to consider the impact of widgets, Ajax, Flash, mobile, etc., which don’t generally show up in page view metrics. And they are also measuring everything on both a contributor level (think analytics by author in a blog) and user level (people on the site).
(Techcrunch) … also read a positive review on ReadWriteWeb
Clicky has a nice web2.0′ish interface, and data in real time. There is a basic free account with a limit of 3 sites to track and a pro account with bells and whistles.
Statcounter has a more traditionally looking interface, but data here is also real time.
GoStats has an nice and clean interface that looks like a blend of Clicky and statcounter.
Bonus info:
If you use Greasemonkey, Joost de Valk has a really nice greaseMonkey statistics detector that gives you an idea of how and when you are being tracked.
I’m on a mix of Analytics, Statcounter and Woopra.
What do you use?
GoStats is my fav. (best reason to drop statcounter imho)
OK – I’ll add GoStats to the list. Would be interesting to hear what maked GoStats better.
Nice note about free web analysis tools you leaved to us here.
I only see the Google Analytics at my costumers websites. And maybe paid software like Webtrends, Clicktracks, Traceworks ect.
How much do you se the other free tools out there. Any experience here?
I’m a Google Analytics-fan, but decided to test out Clicky on my next website (mainly because of their iPhone-friendly UI).
IMHO Statcounter is too old-school and limited. I used it long ago but it’s unlikely I’ll ever go back to good ol’ Statcounter
@Vadskær – I did test Clicky for a while, but got tired of having to pay for bells and whistles. StatCounter’s look&feel *is* very oldschool.
I’ve begun using Woopra and really like the real real time experience – but I’m not too impressed by the analytics part – and thus I find my self switching between Analytics (adsense tracking + referrer trends), Statcounter(day to day overview) and Woopra(instant joy)
You missed out Piwik which is my favourite
I have never heard of Woopra until I stumbled across your blog. The first thing Im doing after I post this comment is heading over to Woopra to check it out.
Thanks:
Brad