There is now a variety of tracking website applications for various CMS, blogs, forums and website platforms for you to choose from, and many more are in development. If you are serious about tracking your website's return on marketing investment, or simply want to know where your visitors are coming from, here are a few lists that could help you monitor and analyze your web traffic.
Google Analytics - Google’s free analytics software. Unlike some enterprise apps, the stats are usually on a delay of a few hours.
VisiStat - Real-time tracking with graphical and intuitive reporting features.
ShinyStat - Web analytics with three available packages that range from a free package that is basically a souped-up hit counter to a full-featured business edition with conversion and campaign tracking.
Pagealizer - Web analytics that actually suggest changes and optimizations for your pages.
Woopra - Analytics suite that includes click-to-chat functionality and real-time notifications.
JAWStats - A free, open-source analytics package that displays your stats using charts, graphs, and tables.
clickdensity - Heat maps with real-time visitor data to help you optimize your link and ad placement and enhance your site’s stickiness.
WASP - Web Analytics Solution Profiler is a Firefox extension that helps you understand how your web analytics solution is being implemented.
popuri.us - A tool to check your ranking and popularity on a variety of sites including Alexa, Google PageRank and more.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Great Post. You are missing one important tool though! Its called piwik. you install it on your own server. I like it way better than google analytics!