: What are the best user data collection and gathering tracking tools? I know of a few tool that help markets gather data about visitors, Google Analytic, CrazzyEgg, and KISS Insights. What are

@Dunderdale272

no love for ChartBeat or Quantcast?

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@Voss4911412

Piwik: Open source real time analytics. I don't use this, but I have a friend who does and he really likes it. It does look pretty nice and with something like this you can do all sorts of other things with the data (such as your own real time stats on the website).

Also, here is a list of alternatives. It has log file analyzers, like Analog or AWStats, remote services, like stat24 and Yahoo Analytics, and self hosted, like Open Web Analytics and FireStats.

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@Lengel546

Among the free tools that offer the most features, Clicky & StatCounter look promising. See comparison chart

Both have paid plans as well.

I've been using the free version of StatCounter on my blog since 5 years & I'm pretty happy with it.

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@Sent6035632

One of them is Shaun Inman's Mint.

Then:


VisiStat
SiteCatalyst
Webtrends
AWStats
ClickTraks
Coradiant
Unica
pMetrics
Clicky
iWebTrack
OneStat
MetaTraffic
Metronome
Clicktale
Reinvigorate
Observer
W3Counter
KISSMetrics
MixPanel

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