Analytics Toolbox: 50+ More Ways to Track Website Traffic

Most analytics packages are now focusing on real-time tracking and graphical representations of visitor data. Below are more than fifty analytics tools to help you monitor and analyze your web traffic.

1) VisiStat – Real-time tracking with graphical and intuitive reporting features.

2) Google Analytics (Google Analytics) – Mentioned in our first list, Google (Google) offers free analytics software. Includes tight integration with AdWords (see also: 27 Features that Make Google Analytics Best of Breed). Unlike some enterprise apps, the stats are usually on a delay of a few hours.

3) mviSPY – Real-time analytics that track conversions and visitor identities.

4) Webstats BASIC – A free analytics program that tracks visitors and trends and has exportable reports.

5) Webstats PRO – A full-featured analytics package that includes click path analysis, campaign tracking, and complete traffic monitoring capabilities.

6) LoadStats – Provides two different packages that include basic page view and visitor tracking along with geo-location, ad tracking, and more.

7) Opentracker.net – Real-time visitor monitoring and web statistics.

8) eWebAnalytics – Comprehensive, free package that tracks unique visitors, conversions, average click-paths, traffic history, bounce rates, and virtually everything else that you could want in an analytics solution.

9) MetaTraffic – Web analytics program that installs quickly and has the ability to track ad campaigns, downloads, and multimedia file traffic.


10) 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.

11) Lyris HQ – Analytics that include campaign ROI tracking and the ability to segment your historical data in any way you want.

12) W3Counter – Analytics that include a real-time visitor map to show where your visitors are coming from as they arrive.

13) Blizzard Tracker – Intuitive web analytics that include web stats in real time.

14) StatsAdvisor – Web analytics that help you track both online and offline advertising efforts.

15) Clicky (Clicky) – Shows you every action a visitor makes and offers a dedicated iPhone version.

16) Logdy.com – A free and paid analytics program with real-time reporting.

17) Pagealizer – Web analytics that actually suggest changes and optimizations for your pages.

18) Sometrics – Analytics that measure your social advertising efforts.

19) Piwik – Open source web analytics that you put on your own server.

20) FireStats – A downloadable web analytics program that’s free for non-commercial use.

21) Snoop – Analytics that give you real-time notification of events that happen on your website (like orders, unique visitors, comments, and more).

22) Yahoo! Web Analytics – Formerly IndexTools, this package provides real-time enterprise site stats.

23) BBClone – A PHP (PHP) based stats package.

24) Woopra - Analytics suite that includes click-to-chat functionality and real-time notifications.

25) MochiBot.com – Flash content analytics.

26) Grape Web Statistics – A free and open source analytics package that includes the ability to query historical data and is compatible with both PHP 4 and 5.

27) tuffed Tracker – Track form submissions, downloads, and other visitor actions, calculate conversions and ROI, analyze landing page effectiveness and more.

28) GoingUp – Complete analytics package with comprehensive visitor and performance tracking.

29) PHP-Stats – A complete analytics program built in PHP.

30) Shortstat Beta 3 – A simple analytics program that includes search engine keyword tracking and more.

31) SlimStat – Based on Shortstat but includes a number of other features including the ability to filter out search engine crawlers and showing visits and unique IPs instead of just hits.

32) Jawstats - A free, open-source analytics package that displays your stats using charts, graphs, and tables.

33) Histats.com – Free web stats in real time that include referrer information, detailed visitor information and more.

34) StatCounter – A highly configurable stats program that’s free.

35) Brandgrow Website Analytics – Analytics that include website segmentation, competitor analysis, industry benchmarking, and more.

36) Sawmill 8 – Analytics with real-time alerts and clickstream analysis.

37) XPLG – Analytics package that lets you monitor and analyze any type of IT data.

38) FuseStats – Web statistics that include customizable heatmaps, ad campaign management, multiple site tracking and more.

39) Enquisite – A search analytics program that includes visual search analysis and helps you optimize your site’s longtail search referrals.

40) clickdensity – Heat maps with real-time visitor data to help you optimize your link and ad placement and enhance your site’s stickiness.

41) nextSTAT – Complete analytics package that includes graphical visitor detail path reports.

42) ClickTale – Watch movies of what your visitors do while on your site, view heatmaps and every interaction that a visitor has on your site including hovers, hesitations, and even which form fields are causing visitors to leave.

43) ClickHeat – A free click heatmap generator.

44) WASP - Web Analytics Solution Profiler is a Firefox (Firefox) extension that helps you understand how your web analytics solution is being implemented.

45) SiteScan – A Google Analytics diagnostic tool that audits your Analytics setup to make sure it’s properly configured.

46) Fire Analytics – A Firefox extension that lets you view your Google Analytics reports from Firefox.

47) Cownter App – Shows visitors to your site how many people are currently on each page.

Source : Mashable