While there are more than 15 stats providers out there, I wanted to compile a list of those that I have found to be the best or the most used by the communities. If you have found one that I missed, please leave a comment and tell me about it.
- SiteMeter - Easy to install javascript or html tracking code with detailed tracking for a free account and more robust reports for the premium accounts. Stats can be emailed weekly as well as being viewable on the SiteMeter website.
- ClickyWeb Analytics 2.0 - Javascript tracking code with a 2.0 feel to the reporting dashboard and a high level of detail available on your visitors. Easy integration into your blog as well as your WordPress site. Up to three domains for free with other packages available for purchase.
- GoogleAnalytics - Javascript tracking code for stats analytics to compliment website adwords campaigns. "Google Analytics helps you find out what keywords attract your most desirable prospects, what advertising copy pulled the most responses, and what landing pages and content make the most money for you."
- StatsCounter - Simple and free stats recording for your website providing hit counting, tracking, and web stats.
- WordPress.com Stats - Stats plugin from WordPress.com which enables you to track visitors and stats from WordPress.com dashboard even on blogs hosted elsewhere. While free, you will need a WordPress.com account to get the API code to enable the stats.
- Feedburner Stats - The Google purchase of Feedburner flipped all the pro services to a free for all status. Feedburner stats, once enabled tracks your feed subscriptions and hits and with a code insertion on your site, can track your site statistics as well.
- Mint - Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard. Mint is not a free services and prices start at $30 per domain.
- AWStats - AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers. AWStats must be installed locally on the webserver or where ever it can access the webserver log files. AWStats is a free product.
- Webalizer - The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program that produces summaries of traffic from webserver log files. Webalizer is free software.
- 103bees - It's an online service for webmasters, bloggers and internet marketers that is highly focused on natural search engine traffic analytics. 103bees provides real-time statistics and detailed information on search terms making it a great tool for search engine optimization (SEO) and internet marketing.
- Firestats - A locally installed stats system supporting any PHP page (Standalone), Django Drupal, Gallery2, Gregarius, Joomla, MediaWiki, trac, WordPress, and WordPress MU. Firestats is free for non-commercial use.
- GoStats - Packed with lots of great features, including information on page views, return visitors, and page popularity, this free hit counter is a quick and easy to use tool for determining how many people visit your website. A pro version is also available.
- SlimStat - A free self hosted stats program originally part of ShortStat. A ready made WordPress plugin is available in WP-SlimStat.
- Performancing Metrics - Is the exact same stats program as ClickyWeb Analytics 2.0 but running on the Performancing domain and on a different database for the backend. If you already use Performancing you can use your login here rather than create a new account at Clicky.
- eXTReMe Tracking - Free tracking service showing numbers, percentages, stats, totals and averages from simple counting your visitors until tracking the keywords they use to find you.
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