It seems that Google analytic's are giving less and less information away for natural search/SEO traffic than ever before - its a free service so I can't complain to much, but that brings up another question as what to recommend to new and existing clients.
What are you guys using at the moment other than Google Analytics?
As a side note I have been using trackur.com for social media monitoring/tracking and I've been relatively happy with the results, I'm just wondering if anyone has any other tools/services they would recommend.
Piwik
Or Statcounter where ecommerce is not of interest
Someone on here mentioned Piwik recently, which is now working with log files as well as JavaScript tags. That's what I'm migrating to, as I'm a big fan of Sane/Unica/IBM NetInsight, and Piwik seems to offer a lot of the same benefits. However, if the traffic on Eric Peterson's Web Analytics Forum is anything to go by, Google and Adobe/Omniture are the only vendors with big market share at the moment.
Edit: And it may well have been IrishWonder!
I know I've mentioned it on Twitter/FB - don't think I did here
Quote from: IrishWonder on January 22, 2013, 06:13:16 PM
Piwik
I just asked via Twitter the other day "What does Google Analytics have that Piwik doesn't?" and didn't get an answer. So I'll ask you - what would be missing (except of course previous history)?
Piwik looked pretty good on the demo page, but it's hard to tell from a demo sometimes
open web analytics is worth a look as well.
www.clicky.com
VERY happy with them!
> www.clicky.com
Interesting. You're using a paid account? How long have you been using them?
Yes, doing a paid account with them.
Been with them for what 2-3 years now. Think it was DaveN that tipped me off way back.
Been using clicky (or getclicky what ever you want to call it) for about a year now on a site I own.
And I really like it.
They've done a good job with the interface, gives you all the information that matters and are committed to the platform.
I like how how I place a widget on phone and I can see at a glance the traffic on my site.
Plus having this up on a big screen for all too see is soooo cool (that's just the geek inside of me though) :) - http://clicky.com/stats/bigscreen?site_id=32020&date=2013-01-25
I did sign up with a cracking discount through appsumo but unfortunately it's not there any more. There maybe another one somewhere else tho.
Highly recommended by me, if that means anything :)
Would running Clicky and Analytics at the same time be a bit too much?
Have a bunch of sites running both Bill. No problem.
I may give it a whirl then. Good to compare. Thanks Ras.
Lots to look through - thanks for the suggestions
If it means anything here's my list I compiled when on one of my hunts
http://piwik.org/
https://mixpanel.com/
http://haveamint.com/
https://clicky.com/
http://statcounter.com/
http://www.advancedwebstats.com/
http://www.woopra.com/
http://www.kissmetrics.com/
http://foxmetrics.com/
http://chartbeat.com/
https://www.reinvigorate.net/
http://extremetracking.com/
http://www.shinystat.com/
http://whos.amung.us/
http://www.visitorville.com/
http://www.footprintlive.com/
http://feedjit.com/
http://www.w3counter.com/
http://www.opentracker.net/
http://www.quantcast.com/
http://www.inspectlet.com/
http://www.luckyorange.com/
https://www.gosquared.com/
https://www.seevolution.com/
http://newrelic.com/
http://www.histats.com/
But of course, out of all of them getclicky.... sorry clicky was the one I went for purely because it covered all my bases
have fun :D
What's the difference between clicky.com's free version and their paid version? I saw their comparison to other popular software, but didn't see a head to head of paid vs free.
More detailed stats, api etc. Paying for it is a no-brainer imo. Good product. Let me know if you want a "special link" ;-)
Quote from: bill on January 26, 2013, 02:21:04 PM
I may give it a whirl then. Good to compare. Thanks Ras.
Bill - do it on the site that you're testing on Cloudflare - if you look under the Apps section, Cloudflare will automatically integrate Clicky for you straight off their servers.
Haven't tried it, but presumably they inject it in the header (if you want to track outbound links)
Thanks ergo.
Clicky Web Analytics from CloudFlare Apps requires that I pay for a Clicky plan. :-\
Talking of Piwik.... Has anybody using it had any issues with it having trouble tracking referrers from Google where other tools track them fine? (not talking about [not provided])
For one of there sites I use it on, I am seeing traffic from Google in Statcounter but not in Piwik, kinda weird