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.
If you happen to use Google Analytics to measure traffic on your site, and you are running Google Adsense ads, you should check out this excellent script for Tracking AdSense clicks with Google Analytics. The script is super easy to implement and gives a nice range of reports to identify what pages on your site are performing well with regards to Adsense conversion.
If you have a self-hosted Wordpress blog, you can now have the same Stats Plugin that is available at the WordPress.com hosted blogging service. Although it’s not quite as nice as Mint, it does contain the most important stats for tracking visitors to your site. Best of all, the price is free!
Corunet presents The definitive heatmap where by using a combination of Apache, Ruby and JavaScript, you can create your own heatmaps to track where users are clicking on your sites. So this combination of scripts essentially give you the same results as CrazyEgg, however, by rolling your own solution you’ll probably learn something along the way!
Google Analytics Blog reports Google Analytics is open to everyone. The service was up until now open only by invite, but this restriction has been lifted and anybody with a website can now use this excellent hosted service for tracking web traffic on their sites. It’s also worth noting that Google Analytics is also free!
Digital Web Magazine has an excellent article that explains the Dollars and Sense of Web Analytics and attempts to demystify some of the terminology used in Web analytics reports.
I just logged into my Google Analytics account and was shown the following message:
As part of our efforts in expanding system capacity, your account now has the ability to utilize additional profiles. The total number of profiles enabled is 5
If you already have an Analytics account, it might be worth checking in and claiming your 5 additional sites before they go away!
A couple of months I wrote a Mint Pepper that let webmasters track Google Adsense clicks on their websites. What made my Pepper quite unique was the fact that it tracked clicks from Firefox (which wasn’t easy due to a bug in Firefox). So having gotten around this bug by watching for the screen coordinates of the mouse click, my tracking script was quite unique.
That prompted me to recieve an email this morning from Aaron Wall of SEOBook asking if he could use the code I created to create a Google AdSense clicks tracker for Google Analytics. I said yes, and as a result here is the Track Google AdSense Clicks via Google Analytics - Free AdSense Tracker.
Enjoy!
Google Analytics is a new free offering by the search engine giant that provides excellent web analytics for website owners and developers. The product is based on Urhcin, which Google recently purchased. I’ve installed it on a couple of my own sites, and other than the Google Analytics site being slow, it was very easy to create an account and begin tracking visits. Google gives you a small snippet of JavaScript code that gets added to each page you want to track.
