Alternatives to Google Analytics.
To begin here Google Analytics is a good web analytics program. Google provide this service free of charge and used about 57% of the user who checks for the web analytics.
It contains good user interfaces stats display designs, but i don’t like one thing about the Google Analytics that it doesn’t give the real time stat when it is required.
also it is not possible to to have stats on your web server.
The Web Analytics programs are built in different programming language like PHP,FLASH,JAVA,CGI(Common gateway Interfaces).
PHP:-
PHPstats - The advantage of this Analyzer is that it gives you the Page views in order they are viewed.The good thing about the PHPstat is that it is installed on the web server and the all stats are tracked on your server. Five month back the support and forum were in FRENCH language but now that have been modified in English.
Slim Stat - This is very simple stat analyzer, it is developed by modifying the Shaun Inman’s great ShortStat. It allow to show the visitors IP address and allow you to block the certain IP address to access your Website, also filter the Spams. Only disadvantage is that doesn’t show you the graph of stats. Free tool to use.
Stuffed Tracker - Paid software to use. The stuffed tracker is two in one package: track general traffic on your sites and measure ROI and conversion rates at the same time. It is based upon the cookies and IP-based tracking.Discover new advertising sites and search engine keywords that you can make use of to get more quality traffic and higher conversion rates — Track sales, downloads, sign ups, loading of important pages and see where the visitors that performed these actions originally came from.
Charges(personnel-$79.95 for a website). Free demo is also available.
BBClone - For each visitor BBClone counter can display: IP address, operating system, browser, referrer, visit date, page visits and number of visitors. The last stable BBClone release is version 0.4.9c,t is known to run on Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux and MacOs X. It is available free of cost.
JavaScript:-
Clicky - Clicky Web Analytics gives bloggers and smaller web sites( have page view less than 1000/month ) a more personal understanding of their visitors with its refreshingly clean and simple interfaces.It is a simply and best way to monitor, analyze, to your web site’s traffic in real time.
Advantage and better then GA(Google Analytics) :-
- Works with visitors who have disabled JavaScript.
- Get your stats via RSS feeds.
- IP filter and IP tags.
StatCounter - StatCounter is free and reliable web tracker, highly configurable and invisible, hit counter and give real-time detailed web stats. StatCounter place has no Ads on the websites. StatCounter is very similar to Google but a great alternative.Got many good features.
HitStats - HitStats is completely free of cost, and doesn’t palce any ads on the website, It is also real time web stats. HitStats will allow you to add a counter on your website. It has a great support forum for any questions. My friend have tried HitStats and found the dashboard has some very beautiful graphs with some great data.
SiteMeter - SiteMeter is also a real time blog and website stats analyser tool. Sitemeter got all the features that all othe Analytics program have but only good is that it allows you to view who is on your site now. It is a neat and wanting feature that could be pretty useful. It also has a counter that could go on your website Theme.
CGI(Common gateway Interfaces) :-
AWStats - AWStats is a free of cost to use, It is powerful tool that generates the analysis on advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. There is no tracking code you must install on your website in order for AWStats to track users, It uses your server or hosting log to track your visitors. I have used AWStats in the past and it is a great tool.
Flash:-
Mochibot – MochiBot is a modern and latest Flash traffic monitoring tool (similar to a hit counter) that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 4 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views and accesses that SWF got for all 4 servers. It’s perfect for tracking how viral your Flash content is and good stats for any Flash websites.It is totally free to use.
good post to start with georgy ! i personally tend to look for alternatives that could give me a better analysis and user trends than the old Google Analytics.
I recommend a paid service named ClickDensity, that presents the overlay of the user’s website with color coding based on clicks received( max clicked area=red, medium clicked area=orange) , there’s a free trial available… obscenely interactive !
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Nice post. Still i do consider Google Analytics as the most accurate one. Anyways thanks for sharing the alternatives.
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i have tried and using histats … its very useful for tracking
will give a try to php stats
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it might give the newcomers abit of a headstart, wish i had one :*(
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