15 Free Tools for Website Traffic Analytics


Analyzing and measuring website traffic help you better understand your website or blog. You can check which content is most popular, where your visitors are clicking, who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, and any other important statistics.

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Here are 15 FREE Analytics Tools that allows you to track your website more easily.

  1. Google Analytics

    Google Analytics allows you gain rich insights into your website traffic with Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reporting, Motion Charts, and where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.

  2. SiteMeter

    Site Meter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With their detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

  3. Yahoo Web Analytics

    It is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time and historical data can be segmented instantly and visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.

  4. Woopra

    Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it’s free!

  5. W3Counter

    W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.

  6. Whos.Amung.Us

    Getting stats couldn’t be any easier. Whos.Amung.Us isfree and there’s no registration! Simply copy the html code you see below and paste it into every page you want to track.

  7. Feedburner

    The most widely used tool for measuring stats on RSS feeds for blogs and podcasts, FeedBurner reports and trends subscribers, incoming links, and visitors. FeedBurner was recently acquired by Google.

  8. StatCounter

    StatCounter is a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

  9. FlagCounter

    Every time someone from a new country visits your site, a new flag will be added to your counter. The total number of visitors from each country will be shown next to the flag, and clicking the counter image will reveal all sorts of useful information!

  10. Histats

    You can track stats of your pages one by one, or track stats based on group of pages or visitors. This is useful for big sites; it enables you monitor different sections of your site. For example, by using the same ID for all your forum pages, you can track hits to your forum.

  11. Piwik

    Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and etc.

  12. WebStat

    This is a free service for analyzing traffic to your Web site. WebSTAT.com offers loads of info on your traffic that you can view with convenient, easy-to-read graphs and tables. Easy to set up: just put a snippet of code on your page and you’re all set.

  13. GoStats

    This reliable free Web page tracker offers lots of useful information about your site’s traffic, including referrals, traffic trends and search engine data. The tracker is easy to set up; simply fill out a form and then cut and paste a few lines of HTML onto your pages.

  14. EZ Webstat

    Completely invisible tracking code to create visitor statistics for your site. Display a counter to show users currently online, visitors today, visitors this month, downloads, or many other options.

  15. ShinyStat

    ShinyStat Free offers several Hit Counter, styles, colours and shapes to choose from. On your tracker you can display up to 2 values. The tracker is very easy to install, highly reliable, and satisfies the needs of non-professional users. The ShinyStat web counter is used by more than 250,000 users across the world.

Do you know any other Analytic Software (Free / Premium) ? Which one do you prefer as the best ? Please do let us know via Comment

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7 Responses to “15 Free Tools for Website Traffic Analytics”

  1. shashank chinchli

    Nov 21. 2010

    For me Google Analytics is too accurate n reliable!
    havent tried none other!
    need ur recommendation to whom should i try my hands on:?
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  2. Sathish @ TechieMania

    Nov 23. 2010

    Hi Swamy, thanks for sharing these useful apps for bloggers. I have been using few of them already. Will check the others for sure. Thanks again
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  3. Al@top 10 antivirus

    Nov 25. 2010

    Awesome lists and useful thanks for this.

    My favourite is analytics and stat counter. I vote for them.
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