Three ways to measure traffic
David Rosam on Jul 10 2007 at 9:04 pm | Filed under: Analytics, Marketing
With the welcome news last week that FeedBurner PRO stats are free, I was asked what else I use stats-wise on Dangerous Thinking.
Inevitably, this blog gets used as a testbed for all sorts of stuff, but here’s the current state of play. Google Analytics gets added to just about any site I’m involved with, so that’s a given. The third, which I’m enjoying using on a day-to-day basis is Clicky [Disclosure: this is an affiliate link], which unlike Google Analytics, gives up-to-the-minute stats.
Clicky’s presentation is clean, almost spare, so it’s easy to get an immediate feel for what’s happening. Yet you can get really anal, tracing the minutiae of individual visits, should the urge take you - and you have a free half-hour.
I also like the way it integrates FeedBurner stats into one tab, meaning I can see everything I need in one place. I now interact with Analytics just once a week when it sends me a PDF of all the reports I like to see.
I’m not going to write an in-depth review of Clicky, save to say that I like it, and will recommend it - there’s a free trial, so hop over to Clicky and try it out.
