8 Worthy Alternatives to Google Analytics

Each and every person who owns a website will likely have some sort of Analytics script installed to monitor traffic. And it is probably Google Analytics.

Don’t get me wrong, Google Analytics is an Awesome packages and gives you tons of data about your visitors but just sometimes you need something different (or you don’t like Google and want to host your data elsewhere ).

Whatever your reason, you need look no further.

8 Worthy Alternatives to Google Analytics

Piwik (Free)

Piwik is my favourite alternative for 2 reasons –

1. Open Source
2. All the data sits on your DB
(3. and it’s real time)

Yahoo! Web Analytics (Free)

An enterprise level solution.
Real time data

Clicky (Free up to a limit of 3000 page views a month)

Clicky is designed to be the easiest web analytics service you’ve ever used. Services like Google Analytics do everything except take out the trash, but you probably don’t know what any of the data means. With Clicky, everything just makes sense.

Optimised for iPhone

Woopra

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use,real-time Web tracking and analysis application. We deliver the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry through our innovative desktop application. But Woopra is more than simply statistics

Includes a Desktop Application

Mint (Low-Cost)

Mint helps you identify where the most interest is being generated and over what.

Chartbeat

Used by some big players.

Stuffed Tracker

Reinvigorate

Realtime
Heat map Technology
Desctop App

Conclusion

I would personally still stick with Google Analytics however would also give Piwik a try as I’m sure the Piwik community have developed some great extensions to it!