June
14
2006
Google Analytics – it’s free but the most well developed. I can run relatively complex analysis and filtering (or segmentation).
Statcounter – it’s real time, the only one I have that is. Good basic package, don’t know about the premium service. It’s also free and the first one I added so it has the best historical data.
Blogbeat – I even broke down and bought a year’s subscription for a whopping $24 dollars. Why? I really, really like the city cloud and am waiting for Blogbeat to release an API/widget for it.
Feedburner – How else will I know who is reading the blog via a reader subscription?
MapSurface – Just plain fun: Hit ‘alt-x’ to see.
Performancing Metrics – Checkin’ it out but I’ll probably drop it, as it doesn’t seem to be giving me any value where each of the above gives me some incremental value.
Still waiting on Measure Map though, requested an invitation months and months ago.
Why do I bring this up? Well, today is Day 100 for this blog so I’m thinking of publishing a ‘First 100 Days’ analysis and if I do, I will be pulling data from all of them (with the exception of Performancing).
Clint – I was pretty excited to see all the tools in use on your blog, especially the variety in use to track all the different “components” of web analysis that blogs involve.
It wasn’t until I saw Eric Peterson’s Vendor Discovery Tool that it really hit me: the people blogging on the web analytics space tend to employ (and probably play with) many different tools. I was envious of a few that had deployed tools I don’t get to play with often enough (VisualSciences, FireClick, NetTracker), but excited to see the level of involvement and interest here by people blogging on web analytics.
~Matt Jacobs
Matt,
for me at least, this blog is my own personal sandbox where I can test out the various analytics packages that are easily available. (I suspect this may be true for other WA bloggers as well)
On the one hand, there is the personal joy of getting to play with new toys (like Click Density which I put in on Friday) as well as the professional bonus of growing a broader knowledge of diverse analytics packages.
I too am jealous of at least Eric P. since he gets to use Visual Sciences – I’ve seen a couple of demos and it seems very slick.