Free Site Analytics Tools

May 9, 2008

mon.itor.us - personalized Ajax dashboard interface, checks server performance and availability, generates uptime reports, tracks visitors, alerts its users in case abnormalities are detected. They also provide tools for performance research, web analytics and business intelligence. Users may use the service to benchmark their site performance versus industry/competitors performance. They can also research web traffic correlations with uptime and performance all in the same place - the feature we did not yet see in any other even commercial services.

Statcounter - Now into beta 4, this is one of the best free analytics tools out there. Among the features are an Invisible Counter Option, Configurable Counter, Configurable Summary Stats, Magnify User, Drill Down, Popular Pages, Entry Pages, Exit Pages, Came From, Keyword Analysis, Recent Keyword Activity, Search Engine Wars, Visitor Paths, Visit Length, Returning Visits, Recent Pageload Activity, Recent Visitor Activity and Country/State/City Stats. Offers up to 250,000 pageloads per month free.

Google Analytics (duh) - the big poppa, still can’t be beat for ease of use and its acceptance in most online blog services. The flexible graph feature is very nice and for those of you new to GA they have ‘Conversion University’.

Performance Metrics - “not just another web analyzer” is their slogan and to some degree they are right. They have features you can’t find with any of the other analytics tools such as individual visitor details, custom tracking data(cookies, usernames, etc.) and IP tags. Their dashboard has the nicest ‘feel’ to it, very visual and easy to navigate and you can get results via RSS feed.

Sitemeter - the most basic of the 5 here, it still has all the valuable features of any of them. Simple navigation and layout make this great for beginners.

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