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Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Jermaine Pleas — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:14:36 -0000

I really like Crazy Egg, but I would have to say Google because of the fitted results.

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Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Jimmy Bone — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:32:47 -0000

Right now I'm using google analytics to monitor my traffic
but I recently installed Wordpress stats and that gives me
instant reads when I login. I'm basically new
to blogging and have not had a chance to use the other analytics tools.

Great poll!!

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

david — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:36:54 -0000

I tried martix stats once as was a freebie but is pretty poor and like others here use Google Analytics now which for me gives me a decent idea of what is going on. Guess Google are winning in the poll due to it being more well known and hence used rather than necessarily being the best.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Youli — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:13:25 -0000

Wow! I have never seen many blog analysis software in the internet, but I think the Google Analytics is most favorite software for webmasters to analysis their websites. The stage with maintenance your website utilizes anayltics software is the most important thing, especially blog website. Because most blog website are complex management with all visitors and you always need a better website analysis software or even more for your business.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

George Aspland — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:45:57 -0000

ClickTracks. Because our blog is a sub web of our main site our ClickTracks analytics runs on it too. We get very useful metrics, top referrers, referrals to specific posts, top landing pages/posts, keywords searched on to reach those posts, previous and next pages both in the blog and on our main site by segment so we can make changes, add calls to action etc. and see the results. And we didn

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Hugh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:56:02 -0000

Lorelle, I was monitoring the poll results here on a daily basis. Woopra was most definitely in the bottom half of the choices for the first 2 days, then suddenly one day, it got 30 votes out of nowhere. A bit suspect, I'd say. It's as if someone told all their friends, Quick, go vote for Woopra so it's in the lead! Not that it was someone from Woopra necessarily, but the results are very skewed.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Lorelle — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:23:08 -0000

Thank you for including Woopra in the list, and wow! We are stunned at the positive response. As a mosquito in the side of Google Analytics, this is amazing. Thanks for showcasing us and showing us that people are liking what we are doing!

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Brent — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:09:36 -0000

Clicky keeps getting better with every update... it's one of the few analytics packages that automatically (by default) partitions out links from social media/bookmarking sources. Not only that but just about everything in the analytics package can be pulled out via an RSS feed.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Richard — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:50:28 -0000

I've used Statcounter for many years, and on many sites. Top notch support, easy to install, easy to interpret stats. I heartily recommend you try them!

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Lee Odden — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:23 -0000

Thanks for pointing that out Vince. (now corrected)

Although, if the extra s is going to throw someone off that much I'd have to wonder how familiar they really are with the tool. StatCounter is only included in this poll because it's a tool in use by many bloggers because it's free. However, like W3Stats and Google Analytics, it's not blog centric like Clicky, Woopra and BLVDStatus.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Vince Pickett — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:28:00 -0000

Thinking that my tool of choice STATCOUNTER might be toasting all of them if it was actually spelled correctly in the poll.

GA fears them as noted when StatCounter's Google Page Rank mysteriously dropped from a 10 to 9 shortly after GA was introduced.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Sharon Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:58:23 -0000

Great Tips, I agree with most of the comments as well, Thanks for sharing this with us, Keep up the great work!

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Gerard Duke — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:55:05 -0000

guys, google analytics is good but woopra owns the net!
I'm so happy to have it.

Real time! wow...

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Jo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:44:17 -0000

GA is good, i used to use it before.
But now i use only Woopra.
The services that Woopra offers cannot be compared to other analytic tools.(live chat, notifications etc...)

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

xcoder — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:41:28 -0000

Woopra all the way, amazing instant stats :)

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Gerald Weber — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:05:40 -0000

Google analytics is definitely my favorite stats program. Stats counter is not bad but the free version has ads. I never tried Wordpress stats. I use feed burner but never really used the stats part of it much other than to keep track of subscribers.

-Gerald Weber

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Lee Odden — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:08:20 -0000

Thank you to everyone who shared their vote, opinion and helped promote this poll.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Diana Freedman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:10:26 -0000

I voted for Google Analytics because I've used it ever since it was new, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. I also use the MyBlogLog stats so that I can easily track clicks on my site (I've found GA to be really inaccurate with that), and referrers TO my blog never match up on the two analytic tools. So I don't really know how my blog is doing, since I can't really believe either of my stat trackers.

Great article, by the way!
~ Diana

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Saad Kamal — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:57:35 -0000

I tried out Yahoo Analytics (ex Indextools) as well. Its currently in beta, and you will need an invite to sign up. Its pretty cool and slightly advanced than the previous GAnalytics. But with the recent Update that GAnalytics made, I think both are highly competitive now.

I like W3Counter a lot. Their reporting is pretty accurate. For Bloggers on hosted platform I'd also advice using AWStats (that comes inside Cpanel).

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Liam Delahunty — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:12:56 -0000

For blogging, I would suggest having a good look at 103bees - http://103bees.com/

It's main use (for me) is long tail, but it has a number of interesting ways of viewing your data.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Chris Bennett — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:57:56 -0000

Lee,

thanks for mentioning BLVD Status, we are working hard on making it a viable solution for blog metrics.

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Jan Alvin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:32:44 -0000

aww, no sitemeter??

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

paisley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:29:50 -0000

Lee you missed a VERY good stats program that can be used for blogs.. i'm using it on 17 clients' blogs.

http://mcc.hitslink.com

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

David Brown — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:23:11 -0000

Even though it's not super fancy I still find useful stats in AwStats ;) .02

Re: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Lee Odden — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:27:59 -0000

Thank you to all that completed the poll and helped promote!

Please comment on other blog-centric analytics tools that measure on-blog activity that I've neglected to include.