Best Alternatives to Google Analytics

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When we talk about Alternatives to Google Analytics, there are very less options which come to our mind. Here are few of the alternatives, have a look. I personally like Piwik and Mint the most..

Piwik

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag.

Features

• Real time web analytics reports: in Piwik, by default reports are generated in real time. For high traffic websites, you can choose the frequency for reports to be processed (more info)
• Piwik’s features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own web analytics plugins!
• you own your data: because Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
• the user interface is fully customizable: you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display and create a report especially tailored to you!

Mint

• Visits breaks down site activity from the past day, week, month and year as total page views and unique visitors
• Referrers are broken down by newest unique, most recent and repeat referrers as well as grouped by domain
• Searches filters out referrals from popular search engines which can then be grouped as web or image search results
• Pages illuminates your most popular and most recently accessed content and allows you to flag or watch individual pages for later revie
• Bird Feeder reveals feed subscription patterns for the past week, month and year as well as click-through from individual feed items
• User Agent 007 scopes out browser families and versions, platforms, common resolutions and Flash plugin versions
• Real Estate can help to plot out a target, above-the-fold design size based on your audience’s common browser window width and height
• Painless Panes Mint’s compact, easy-to-digest interface adapts to the size of your browser window and the number of installed Pepper
• Easy-to-install because designing, building and maintaining a website is hard enough

Sitemeter

Site Meter is a free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page.  Not only can it display the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and every day. It also provides detailed information about these visitors. These statistics are provided in real time so they are always up-to-date.

• Site Meter Counter
• Visitor details are tracked
• Location Mapping
• Referring URL and Referral Search Words
• Location Report and Entry Page
• Outclick and Exit Page
• Visits and Page Views and Visitor Path
• Recent visitors export
• Ad free Stats Page
• Full IP address of each visitor is available
• Ranked Reporting for Referring Pages
• Previous year’s traffic records are available
• Moving Average Charts

Clicky

Clicky is an alternative to Google Analytics and a real-time traffic analytics tool that couldn’t be easier to set up – just insert a bit of script into the header of your website, and you’re set to go! Clicky then tracks, down to the crazy and useful minutiae, what’s happening on your site.

Clicky tracks all the basics, right on the homepage for your site. The number of visitors, the pages they’re coming from, the pages they’re looking at, and how much time they’re spending on your site.

Stuffed Tracker

Stuffed Tracker — is a unique package of tools to gather your website statistics, analyze visitors behavior and ad campaign effectiveness, track sales, calculate conversions and ROI. Many of the technologies that are used in Stuffed Tracker are unique, and all of them are aimed at giving you maximum flexibility in statistics analysis.

Features

• Powerful reports constructor : More then fifty different core reports, which you can use to create exactly the reports that you need. Billions of report variations are possible. That’s as close to infinity as you can get!
• Ad campaigns statistics : Advertising effectiveness: incoming traffic analysis, visitors conversion, ROI.
• Sales tracking : The most important information: what have you sold, how much you’ve earned, who are your customers and where they’ve come from.
• Actions tracking : Form submissions, file downloads, newsletter subscriptions — know everything that happens on your site.
• Split tests : Which of your landing pages are the most successful and convert your visitors better?
• Funnels : Identify the bottlenecks on your site. Find out which pages turn away your visitors

Woopra

Woopra has an interface that is irresistable, developed by former Google employees, it boast features such as data sharing via an API, and runs via a thin desktop client (across all platforms).

In other words, it gets all of its data from the web so you have all the processing power of your desktop left for the interface. Data is obtained live, and features the ability to actually talk to visitors on your site if you so wish.  As with reinvigorate many different goals can be set, with alerts to let you know when that visitors has clicked on your buy now buttons.

Features

• Live Tracking and Web Statistics
• Rich User Interface
• Real-Time Analytics
• Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
• Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
• Live Chat

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If you know or have used any other similar tool please share it as comments.