Yesterday I shared some of the tools that first school of thought think important and might be used widely as a measurement of success for the purpose measuring popularity. Today we will look into some more of popularity measurement tool for yours’ blog.
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Analytics Software Packages
- Google Analytics – Google’s free analytics software. Includes tight integration with AdWords (see also: 27 Features that Make Google Analytics Best of Breed). Unlike some enterprise apps, the stats are usually on a delay of a few hours.
- SiteCounter – This tools offers free stat tracking of key metrics like visits, page views, and referring source for sites with less than 250,000 visitors per month.
- WebtraffIQ – Analytics package tracking site traffic, effectiveness of emails, and offline campaigns.
- WebTrends – One of the top players in analytics since the early days, the company now offers multiple tiers of software packages for different size businesses and specific industries.
- SiteMeter – Provides a basic free tracking service for measuring visitors and page views, and a premium version with more features with pricing based on page views.
Log File Analysis
- Analog – One of the longest running stats packages, Analog is open source and provides basic statistics like number of visitors, referring source, and popular content.
- AWStats – An open source, installable stats page, AWStats analyzes your raw log files to produce a number of graphical reports. The software can also be used to provide analysis of FTP log files and mail log files.
- Webalizer – Downloadable, open-source analytic software that generates reports from your site’s log files.
What next?
Tomorrow and for the next couple of day we will look into how the Second School Of Thought turn certain tools available from some of the mentioned tool into a very powerfull tool. As previous post, I strongly believe you may have use some of the tools mentioned above. Perhap you can share with us your experience?
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