Comments on: Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

By: Work at Home Make Money Online

Work at Home Make Money Online — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:14:36 +0000

I really like Crazy Egg, but I would have to say Google because of the fitted results.

By: Jay @ work at home

Jay @ work at home — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:14:36 +0000

I really like Crazy Egg, but I would have to say Google because of the fitted results.

By: Jimmy Bone

Jimmy Bone — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:32:47 +0000

Right now I’m using google analytics to monitor my traffic
but I recently installed WordPress stats and that gives me
instant reads when I login. I’m basically new
to blogging and have not had a chance to use the other analytics tools.

Great poll!!

By: david

david — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:36:54 +0000

I tried martix stats once as was a freebie but is pretty poor and like others here use Google Analytics now which for me gives me a decent idea of what is going on. Guess Google are winning in the poll due to it being more well known and hence used rather than necessarily being the best.

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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:16:11 +0000

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By: Youli

Youli — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:13:25 +0000

Wow! I have never seen many blog analysis software in the internet, but I think the Google Analytics is most favorite software for webmasters to analysis their websites. The stage with maintenance your website utilizes anayltics software is the most important thing, especially blog website. Because most blog website are complex management with all visitors and you always need a better website analysis software or even more for your business.

By: George Aspland

George Aspland — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:45:57 +0000

ClickTracks. Because our blog is a sub web of our main site our ClickTracks analytics runs on it too. We get very useful metrics, top referrers, referrals to specific posts, top landing pages/posts, keywords searched on to reach those posts, previous and next pages both in the blog and on our main site by segment so we can make changes, add calls to action etc. and see the results. And we didn

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:56:02 +0000

Lorelle, I was monitoring the poll results here on a daily basis. Woopra was most definitely in the bottom half of the choices for the first 2 days, then suddenly one day, it got 30 votes out of nowhere. A bit suspect, I’d say. It’s as if someone told all their friends, Quick, go vote for Woopra so it’s in the lead! Not that it was someone from Woopra necessarily, but the results are very skewed.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:08 +0000

Thank you for including Woopra in the list, and wow! We are stunned at the positive response. As a mosquito in the side of Google Analytics, this is amazing. Thanks for showcasing us and showing us that people are liking what we are doing!

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:09:36 +0000

Clicky keeps getting better with every update… it’s one of the few analytics packages that automatically (by default) partitions out links from social media/bookmarking sources. Not only that but just about everything in the analytics package can be pulled out via an RSS feed.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:50:28 +0000

I’ve used Statcounter for many years, and on many sites. Top notch support, easy to install, easy to interpret stats. I heartily recommend you try them!

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:29:23 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Vince. (now corrected)

Although, if the extra s is going to throw someone off that much I’d have to wonder how familiar they really are with the tool. StatCounter is only included in this poll because it’s a tool in use by many bloggers because it’s free. However, like W3Stats and Google Analytics, it’s not blog centric like Clicky, Woopra and BLVDStatus.

By: Vince Pickett

Vince Pickett — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:28:00 +0000

Thinking that my tool of choice STATCOUNTER might be toasting all of them if it was actually spelled correctly in the poll.

GA fears them as noted when StatCounter’s Google Page Rank mysteriously dropped from a 10 to 9 shortly after GA was introduced.

By: Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:58:23 +0000

Great Tips, I agree with most of the comments as well, Thanks for sharing this with us, Keep up the great work!

By: Gerard Duke

Gerard Duke — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:55:05 +0000

guys, google analytics is good but woopra owns the net!
I’m so happy to have it.

Real time! wow…

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:44:17 +0000

GA is good, i used to use it before.
But now i use only Woopra.
The services that Woopra offers cannot be compared to other analytic tools.(live chat, notifications etc…)

By: xcoder

xcoder — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:41:28 +0000

Woopra all the way, amazing instant stats

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:05:40 +0000

Google analytics is definitely my favorite stats program. Stats counter is not bad but the free version has ads. I never tried WordPress stats. I use feed burner but never really used the stats part of it much other than to keep track of subscribers.

-Gerald Weber

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:08:20 +0000

Thank you to everyone who shared their vote, opinion and helped promote this poll.

By: Diana Freedman

Diana Freedman — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:10:26 +0000

I voted for Google Analytics because I’ve used it ever since it was new, but I’m not sure how accurate it is. I also use the MyBlogLog stats so that I can easily track clicks on my site (I’ve found GA to be really inaccurate with that), and referrers TO my blog never match up on the two analytic tools. So I don’t really know how my blog is doing, since I can’t really believe either of my stat trackers.

Great article, by the way!
~ Diana