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Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Posted on Dec 1st, 2008
Written by Lee Odden
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    There are more companies blogging now than ever. How do you measure results? Measuring the social web is a different thing than what most web analytics packages offer. It can be easy to start a blog, but making it successful requires an excellent feedback mechanism. Blog analytics is one of those sources of feedback to know what’s working and what’s not.

    We’ve listed interesting blog analytics tools of various types before, but now’s your chance to vote for (up to two) of the best software focused on measuring what happens on blogs.

    What are your 2 favorite blog analytics software tools?

    • Google Analytics (43%, 169 Votes)
    • Woopra (10%, 41 Votes)
    • Feedburner Stats (10%, 40 Votes)
    • StatCounter (9%, 37 Votes)
    • Wordpress Stats (7%, 28 Votes)
    • Crazy Egg (6%, 25 Votes)
    • Clicky (5%, 20 Votes)
    • MINT (4%, 16 Votes)
    • BLVD Status (3%, 10 Votes)
    • W3Stats (2%, 6 Votes)
    • Enquisite (1%, 3 Votes)

    Total Voters: 254

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    Free analytics services like Google Analytics, StatsCounter and W3Stats were included because they they offer the kinds of standard analytics information useful for blogs and any kind of web site as well as the fact they are used by a large number of bloggers.

    If we’ve missed a great blog-centric analytics package in the list above, please add in the comments and we’ll include it in our next reader poll.

    Here is a list of the blogs/Forums for the Blog Analytics tools in our poll:

    If you’d like to learn more about blog analytics in general, check out these resources:

    If you have other useful resources on blog analytics, please share in the comments. Especially videos, podcasts, presentations, articles, software reviews/comparisons, screencasts or conference session live blog posts.