PHP Web Stat is an open source statistics application that requires no databases.
It creates its own log files & displays the data according to these information.
To make it run, a code must be installed to webpages. Nice thing about how it works is, the PHP file installed is included via JavaScript and this will make the stats work even if caching is enabled. If the user’s JavaScript is turned off, it will call the PHP file directly.
It has a very simple interface but displays the information needed very well.
Also, several settings can be configured via an admin screen.
P.S. Although the demo is in German, application is multilingual & already has the English support in the download package.
Google Analytics has a fresh & nice feature that Ajax & Flash developers will like. Yes, it is now possible to track pageviews in Ajax & Flash applications. And, it is simple.
It is enough to call a function named _trackPageview when an Ajax request or Flash event is called.
function sendAlert() {
if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
if (http_request.status == 200) {
alert(http_request.responseText);
pageTracker._trackPageview("/pagefilename1" ); }
else {
alert('Error.');
}
}
}
...
To summarize, after an Ajax request is made, the function is called with the page name that is viewed. And, Analytics tracks this page name.
An important usage tip about this feature is that, Google Analytics codes are normally installed just before the </body> tag. When calling _trackPageview function, you’ll need to use it after the Analytics codes are included. Which means installing the Analytics codes just after the <body> tag is a guaranteed solution.
Google is presenting detailed info & examples for both Ajax & Flash.
P.S. The feature is only available with the new Analytics code: the gaJsHos one.
A beautiful feature is "outbound links report". It shows which links your visitors click on your website & even magnify the users who clicked them like every other report.
You can instantly share your analytics with other users with the special "share link" which Logdy creates & also get reports to your e-mail.
With a 1-click "cookie install", you may choose not to track yourself in the analytics for more objective results.
To sum up, Logdy is a very user-friendly service for reaching the deepest parts of your stats in real-time.
The service has a free 1 website plan besides the bigger & paid ones. You can find the pricing for the service here.
Google Trends for Websites is a web-based service where you can compare the visitor statistics of websites.
The data displayed is daily unique visitors (after logging in, you can see the numbers that graphs represent) and currently, up to 5 websites can be compared.
Google Ad Planner provides you information about websites by simply entering demographics and sites associated with your target audience. This is a tool to be used when you are planning or searching for websites to advertise.
Ad Planner, currently, can be used by invitation only. You can apply for it here.
Woopra is a feature-rich free web-tracking and analytics tool that analyzes your website in real time.
Using Woopra, you can view visitor activity in detail, tag visitors to realize them in their next visits, instant-chat with visitors and even get notified from the site activities that you set.
For developers, Woopra provides a full featured API that allows extracting a website’s data into several common web 2.0 formats, making it useful for use within your own application.
This free desktop site analysis tool is definitely worth to try.
ClickHeat is an open source heatmap statistics application & PHP class that visualizes your visitors clicking activities which is a very nice way of getting a snapshot of your visitor’s browsing behaviors.
Heatmaps can also be generated using its heatmap class inside other web applications.
ClickHeat is lightweight as very few function calls to log a click, no server load rise should be noticed. For tweakenings with the settings check the performance & optimization page.
Requirements: Apache or Lighttpd (other may work fine), PHP, GD2 (PNG support needed).
Google Analytics or other web based website analysis & statistic services are great. But most of them are reporting your statistics with a 1 day delay.
If you’re looking for a instant website activity alert like new visitor, new unique visitor, new comment or new order, you’ll love this product.
Snoop is a desktop application running in the system tray (Windows) / system status bar (Mac) which notifies you from the activities in your website / blog.
How To Use?
Using Snoop is as easy as inserting few lines of javascript code inside your website / blog. After that, website activity tracking starts instantly.
Custom events like "new user", new comment", new order" can be tracked too. To do that, you simply insert some extra variables into the javascript code which are well explained in Scoop’s website.
Features:
Real-time website / blog activity tracking.
Sound notifications in avtivities.
Possibility to define custom events.
Name tag integration (which lets you know which user exactly you are tracking)
Windows & Mac versions.
P.S. Snoop is in beta and to register for beta you can fill the form at the reinvigorate homepage.
Google Analytics or other web statistic services can give you the detailed analysis of the visitors. That’s good. But what about a video of the every move a visitor makes on your website?
RobotReplay is a free service with a different website analysis approach.
