Mashable offers an exhaustive list of web analytics tools that include both hosted and non-hosted solutions. In the short analysis of each service, they discuss the strong and unique features that each tool offers. I have been using Google analytics, like most bloggers and small website owners do, because it’s free and very simple to install, but if you’re not aware there is a whole universe of alternate analytics tools available to you out there. We’ve done posts to some other options such as Chartbeat, but if you are interested in information that is not delivered to you by your current analytics package you shouldn’t need any more than this list to find a better one.
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Avoid relying totaly on JS powered analytics. I find they only count about 50% – 60% of traffic.
I must disagree on comment posted by “Mutiny Design”. JavaScript powered Google Analytics is very precise and it returns me the same number of pageviews just like asense reports. When I removed adsense from some of my pages then number of pageviews on G Analytics is greater than pageviews in adsense.
So I wouldn’t say that JS powered analytics tools are bad… Just programmers need to code them perfectly. In addition, JS analytics doesn’t count robots and such pieces of sh*t.
The thing with google analytics is that it isn’t realtime, although it displays great stats and most of all is FREE. But despite this i’ll carry on using. For a good stand alone analyser, i’d recommend Clicktracks