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Analytics Software Packages
VisiStat - Real-time tracking with graphical and intuitive reporting features.
Google Analytics - Mentioned in our first list, 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.
mviSPY - Real-time analytics that track conversions and visitor identities.
Webstats BASIC - A free analytics program that tracks visitors and trends and has exportable reports.
Webstats PRO - A full-featured analytics package that includes click path analysis, campaign tracking, and complete traffic monitoring capabilities.
LoadStats - Provides two different packages that include basic page view and visitor tracking along with geo-location, ad tracking, and more.
Opentracker.net - Real-time visitor monitoring and web statistics.
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.
MetaTraffic - Web analytics program that installs quickly and has the ability to track ad campaigns, downloads, and multimedia file traffic.
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.
Lyris HQ - Analytics that include campaign ROI tracking and the ability to segment your historical data in any way you want.
W3Counter - Analytics that include a real-time visitor map to show where your visitors are coming from as they arrive.
Blizzard Tracker - Intuitive web analytics that include web stats in real time.
StatsAdvisor - Web analytics that help you track both online and offline advertising efforts.
Clicky - Shows you every action a visitor makes and offers a dedicated iPhone version.
Logdy.com - A free and paid analytics program with real-time reporting.
Pagealizer - Web analytics that actually suggest changes and optimizations for your pages.
Sometrics - Analytics that measure your social advertising efforts.
Piwik - Open source web analytics that you put on your own server.
FireStats - A downloadable web analytics program that's free for non-commercial use.
Snoop - Analytics that give you real-time notification of events that happen on your website (like orders, unique visitors, comments, and more).
Yahoo! Web Analytics - Formerly IndexTools, this package provides real-time enterprise site stats.
BBClone - A PHP based stats package.
Woopra - Analytics suite that includes click-to-chat functionality and real-time notifications.
MochiBot.com - Flash content analytics.
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.
Stuffed Tracker - Track form submissions, downloads, and other visitor actions, calculate conversions and ROI, analyze landing page effectiveness and more.
GoingUp - Complete analytics package with comprehensive visitor and performance tracking.
PHP-Stats - A complete analytics program built in PHP.
Shortstat Beta 3 - A simple analytics program that includes search engine keyword tracking and more.
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.
JAWStats - A free, open-source analytics package that displays your stats using charts, graphs, and tables.
Histats.com - Free web stats in real time that include referrer information, detailed visitor information and more.
StatCounter - A highly configurable stats program that's free.
Brandgrow Website Analytics - Analytics that include website segmentation, competitor analysis, industry benchmarking, and more.
Sawmill 8 - Analytics with real-time alerts and clickstream analysis.
XPLG - Analytics package that lets you monitor and analyze any type of IT data.
FuseStats - Web statistics that include customizable heatmaps, ad campaign management, multiple site tracking and more.
Enquisite - A search analytics program that includes visual search analysis and helps you optimize your site's longtail search referrals.
Web Traffic Visualization
clickdensity - Heat maps with real-time visitor data to help you optimize your link and ad placement and enhance your site's stickiness.
nextSTAT - Complete analytics package that includes graphical visitor detail path reports.
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.
ClickHeat - A free click heatmap generator.
Other Tools
WASP - Web Analytics Solution Profiler is a Firefox extension that helps you understand how your web analytics solution is being implemented.
SiteScan - A Google Analytics diagnostic tool that audits your Analytics setup to make sure it's properly configured.
Fire Analytics - A Firefox extension that lets you view your Google Analytics reports from Firefox.
Cownter App - Shows visitors to your site how many people are currently on each page.
Market Research Data and Site Rankings
popuri.us - A tool to check your ranking and popularity on a variety of sites including Alexa, Google PageRank and more.
socialmeter - Check your website's social popularity on sites like Digg, Furl, Jots, and more.
Statsaholic - Compare rankings and other information on up to three websites at a time.
SiteVolume - Compare how often keywords show up on any site you select.
Webslub - Compare your site's performance to any other site.
Interested in more analytics resources? Check these out:
- 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed