When you run a website or a blog it’s always good to monitor it and see where it stands in competition. There are many variables that decide a websites or blogs success. Most important is the traffic or visitors your website attracts in a day, week or a month, what articles/blog posts are getting good traffic from search engines, how does the site performs in social engagements and many more similar variables are important for the success of a website.
To keep proper track you do not have to do much these days. There are many online services to analyse your website. 8 of the best such services are enlisted below.
Clicky, also known as Getclicky is a real time online web analytics platform for website owners and administrators. Clicky is one of the best alternatives to Google analytics. What this service does is, it provides the site owner or administrator a platform to keep an eye at the traffic on the website and easily get specific information about the each individual user who visits or uses their website and applications. With Getclicky, you can also set up custom data logs, track downloads and video analytics. With Clicky, you can also create individual accounts for each site and use IP tags and filters as stat feeds. So, if you were looking for an efficient and affordable web analytics package then you would certainly love Clicky.
Now, you will ask what makes Clicky different from other real-time web analytics services?
There are a large number of applications out there which will provide you a list of web analytics tools, what makes Clicky different is the diversity of the features and options that are included with it. Most of the applications only track the users on the webpage and hence calculate the traffic at the site, but with Clicky, you can not only track the number of users on your website, but also can track Twitter/Facebook conversations, views per video, downloads and much more. Another spectacular feature of Clicky is that the user can view the statistics from a number of devices, be it computers, iPads, iPhones or any Android phone.
Clicky provides free basic account to all the users through which you can track upto 3000 page views per day. But this may not be enough for many website owners and administrators, so you can upgrade to a starting plan at around $30 a year or $5 a month. The starter plan allows you to include three websites in the analysis and track upto 10000 page views a day. Two other plans are also available to users with higher usage for the service, first is the Pro package which allows you to analyse up to 10 websites and 30,000 page views per day and costs $10 per month or $60 a year, second is the Super pro package that costs about $25 per month or $150 per year and allows you to analyse up to 30 websites and track 100,000 page views per day.
Mouseflow is another real time based web analytics service package. It is a hosted service that helps you to track the viewers movement over the webpage, i.e. it tracks the part of the site where users move their cursors to, and creates a log of the most frequently accessed sections of the website.
What Mouseflow actually does is, it creates a log of all the sections where the visitors clicked. It records sections where the visitors hovered their mouse cursor most, and records the interaction of each visitor. All this is done in real time, which helps the user to work on the areas of the website which have been overlooked by visitors and hence help increase the website traffic. All the data recorded is shown in the form of heatmap, which makes it easier for the user to know the most attractive areas of the website. This way a user can either work instantly to improvise their website or webpage, or can do it on a scheduled basis using the saved logs of visitor interactions.
Mouseflow also records the mouse scroll movement and creates a view port map, which represents the data on the parts of the webpage that the visitor spends most of their time.
The main usage of this service package is to record the complete user interaction with the website- It records all the mouse movements, clicks, mouse scrolls, key strokes and form interactions. The free version of this service allows monitoring a single website and record up to 100 monthly recordings and 400 page views per day. The most useful feature of Mouseflow it allows you to have a playback of user interaction, i.e. you actually can see how users browse through your website and what areas are the ones which attract the maximum number of visitors. Other than the free account, the service provides four paid packages, first is the small package, which is $14 per month, and allows 1,000 recordings for only one site, which are approximately 4000 page views. Second is the medium package, which costs $69 per month and allows tracking 2 websites and records 10,000 sessions or approximately 40,000 page views for 2 months. Third is the large package, which costs $139 per month and allows tracking 5 websites and 25,000 records or 100,000 page views approximately. And fourth and the last package is the Super large package, which costs $279 a month, and allows tracking 10 websites up to 100,000 recordings or 400,000 page views.
Woopra is another real time web analysis service that helps the user to improvise their websites according to the user interaction in real time. Woopra is the only pioneer in this field to launch a full-fledged advanced real time web analysis tool in the market. It offers a desktop application through which user can view the statistics of the traffic and user interactions at their webpage. It provides the user a live dashboard which help you to track all users and their whereabouts.
Using Woopra you can find out about the overview of your website, and the user tracking tools provide you specific information about the users on your website including the geographical location to the IP address and the ISP provider. Woopra also provides you the facility to mark users so that you can know how many times a particular user visited your webpage and also the area or section they prefer to browse more.
Now, you will ask how Woopra is different from other Services?
What Woopra has different is the desktop application that connects you to view the webpage traffic and viewer interactions. Also, Woopra has a large variety of options and features that help the website owner or administrator to create marketing plans as per the user interactions and traffic.
Woopra provides its users 7 packages to choose from. The first is a Basic free membership that allows 30,000 monthly page views and records logs up to three months. Second is the Bronze package that costs around $5 per month or around $50 per year and allows 100,000 page views per month, the data are stored for six months, no advertisements and 3 email reports. Third is the Silver package that costs $15 per month or around $150 per year and allows 250,000 page views per month, the data log is stored for 5 months and 5 email reports are sent per month. Fourth is the Gold package that costs $30 per month or around $300 per year and allows 500,000 page views per month, data logs last till 24 months and 10 email reports are sent. The Platinum package costs$50 per month or around $500 per year and upgrades to 1,250,000 monthly page views. The Titanium package costs $100 monthly or $1,000 per year and allows up to 4,000,000 page views, data are logged up for 3 years and up to 15 email reports are sent. The largest package is the Kryptonite, which costs $180 per month and around $1,800 per year and allows 10,000,000 page views per month.
Analog is an offline website analysis service. It is one of the oldest website analysis service that is still in use by many small websites and companies today.
What Analog does is it creates a log of the traffic on the webpage/website and also records the hits per day so that you can easily analyse the report whenever you want. The only drawback of the Analog log file analyser is that it does not work in real time, that is if you want to get the statistics of your website at the current time or instantaneously, you will have to wait until the log file is created and saved as per the schedule.
Mouseflow is another real time based web analytics service package. It is a hosted service that helps you to track the viewers movement over the webpage, i.e. it tracks the part of the site where users move their cursors to, and creates a log of the most frequently accessed sections of the website.
What Mouseflow actually does is, it creates a log of all the sections where the visitors clicked. It records sections where the visitors hovered their mouse cursor most, and records the interaction of each visitor. All this is done in real time, which helps the user to work on the areas of the website which have been overlooked by visitors and hence help increase the website traffic. All the data recorded is shown in the form of heatmap, which makes it easier for the user to know the most attractive areas of the website. This way a user can either work instantly to improvise their website or webpage, or can do it on a scheduled basis using the saved logs of visitor interactions.
Mouseflow also records the mouse scroll movement and creates a view port map, which represents the data on the parts of the webpage that the visitor spends most of their time.
The main usage of this service package is to record the complete user interaction with the website- It records all the mouse movements, clicks, mouse scrolls, key strokes and form interactions. The free version of this service allows monitoring a single website and record up to 100 monthly recordings and 400 page views per day. The most useful feature of Mouseflow it allows you to have a playback of user interaction, i.e. you actually can see how users browse through your website and what areas are the ones which attract the maximum number of visitors. Other than the free account, the service provides four paid packages, first is the small package, which is $14 per month, and allows 1,000 recordings for only one site, which are approximately 4000 page views. Second is the medium package, which costs $69 per month and allows tracking 2 websites and records 10,000 sessions or approximately 40,000 page views for 2 months. Third is the large package, which costs $139 per month and allows tracking 5 websites and 25,000 records or 100,000 page views approximately. And fourth and the last package is the Super large package, which costs $279 a month, and allows tracking 10 websites up to 100,000 recordings or 400,000 page views.
Woopra is another real time web analysis service that helps the user to improvise their websites according to the user interaction in real time. Woopra is the only pioneer in this field to launch a full-fledged advanced real time web analysis tool in the market. It offers a desktop application through which user can view the statistics of the traffic and user interactions at their webpage. It provides the user a live dashboard which help you to track all users and their whereabouts.
Using Woopra you can find out about the overview of your website, and the user tracking tools provide you specific information about the users on your website including the geographical location to the IP address and the ISP provider. Woopra also provides you the facility to mark users so that you can know how many times a particular user visited your webpage and also the area or section they prefer to browse more.
Now, you will ask how Woopra is different from other Services?
What Woopra has different is the desktop application that connects you to view the webpage traffic and viewer interactions. Also, Woopra has a large variety of options and features that help the website owner or administrator to create marketing plans as per the user interactions and traffic.
Woopra provides its users 7 packages to choose from. The first is a Basic free membership that allows 30,000 monthly page views and records logs up to three months. Second is the Bronze package that costs around $5 per month or around $50 per year and allows 100,000 page views per month, the data are stored for six months, no advertisements and 3 email reports. Third is the Silver package that costs $15 per month or around $150 per year and allows 250,000 page views per month, the data log is stored for 5 months and 5 email reports are sent per month. Fourth is the Gold package that costs $30 per month or around $300 per year and allows 500,000 page views per month, data logs last till 24 months and 10 email reports are sent. The Platinum package costs$50 per month or around $500 per year and upgrades to 1,250,000 monthly page views. The Titanium package costs $100 monthly or $1,000 per year and allows up to 4,000,000 page views, data are logged up for 3 years and up to 15 email reports are sent. The largest package is the Kryptonite, which costs $180 per month and around $1,800 per year and allows 10,000,000 page views per month.
Analog is an offline website analysis service. It is one of the oldest website analysis service that is still in use by many small websites and companies today.
What Analog does is it creates a log of the traffic on the webpage/website and also records the hits per day so that you can easily analyse the report whenever you want. The only drawback of the Analog log file analyser is that it does not work in real time, that is if you want to get the statistics of your website at the current time or instantaneously, you will have to wait until the log file is created and saved as per the schedule.
Analog is an open source service that is easily available on the Internet absolutely free of cost. However, you might need to pay for the service if you need to use it at a massive scale, i.e for a group of websites or a huge collection of webpages.
FeedJit pro is another realtime web analyser service which lets you read the statistics and the traffic of your website in realtime. That means you can see the number of people who visited in the last week, last day, last hour and even to the last minute.
The entire traffic log is then converted into a bar graph and is displayed on the service application in the pattern required by the user. Also it shows current traffic on the website in the form of a dynamic bar graph which enables you to compare the traffic on your website each minute.
Another facility that this service provides is, information about each and every user that visits your website. You can get all the specific information about the users you want to focus on, also you can tag known users and hence identify when your friends and family visit your webpage/website.
StatCounter is another realtime website analyser that is available on the internet. The invisible website analyser does the same job as the above website analysers, i.e it tracks the traffic and user interactions and records them to view in realtime or to be seen later in the form of recorded logs.
It also allows you to obtain specific information about any specific visitors if you want to. Also, it records every minor detail about the visitors. From the Ip address to the Isp provider, everything is recorded by the statcounter and is displayed in the form of a bar-graph or heat-map as selected by the user.
It supports almost all the latest web browsers. Statcounter can be installed very easily by installing the app and adding a few codes to your website. Moreover, the complete Statcounter service is absolutely free of cost and widely used these days.
Userlook is supported on almost all the latest internet browsers. If you want to try this service, you can opt for the trial account which is free of cost but if you want a permanent subscription, then you need to pay for the service. They have a number of account types available depending on the users need : Base which comes at a cost of $4.95 per month and allows tracking 100 sessions and a single website, Base + which comes at a price of $8.95 per month and allows up to 1000 sessions and allows tracking 5 websites, and a large package which comes at a price of $39.95 per month which allows 5000 live sessions and track up to 20 websites. Also, for mega website owners there is a huge package with up to 10000 live sessions and analyse up to 50 websites. A plus point of the Userlook is that it is also available at Smartphones so it is more easier for the user to track the traffic on their website and manage it.
Form Optimizer another real time website analyser which focuses on forms available at the webpages and tracks the user interaction with the form. It keeps a record of how many viewers tried to fill the form, how many of them failed, and how many of them succeeded to fill the form. Helps you know the weak points of your conversions and tells you at what places users faced the maximum difficulty, so you can improvise the form and hence the traffic on your webpage.
It gives various reports about user interaction such as :
Drop report- Form Optimizer records and reports the fields at which the user abandoned filling the form, thus lets you know the weak fields of your form.
Time report- It records the amount of time taken by a user to fill the form. Also, records the time viewer invests on each field in the form.
Blank field report- It reports and records the fields which where left blank when the user submitted the form.
Refill report- It simply tells at which field the user went back and refilled the information most. Helps avoid confusing fields and make the form more simplified.
Country report- By this segment you can know the location of your users and create a log and report based on interactions from various countries.
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