Mar 1, 2007

We’ve had a bumpy history with blog statistics programs here at The Bivings Report. Services we like keep getting shut down.

Here is a quick summary:

Industry leader Measure Map got bought by Google a year ago and since then has closed registrations for new users. I’ve been on the waiting list for over a year now with no luck.
The excellent (though buggy) Blogbeat was bought by Feedburner around six months ago and was simplified to the point where it is no longer useful except for the most basic analytics.
The excellent Performancing blog stats programs shut down in December for some unknown reason.
I’m not a fan of SiteMeter, MyBlogLog or Google Analytics for blog tracking.

So I was shocked and happy to come across a new service called Clicky the other day. It is the best blog stats program I’ve used. Clicky has all the basics like site visitors, page views, incoming/outgoing links, and search keywords.

It also has a bunch of goodies like RSS feeds of your stats, a Spy section that lets you watch your users come in real time and a Google Map that show the location of your fifty most recent visitors (screenshot above right).

You can check out a demo on the Clicky website. If you are a blogger, I’d give it a whirl.

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http://www.cybersoc.com Robin Hamman

I use, and have had no problems with, statcounter. It’s got all the features you’d expect, particularly as there is a free AND invisible version available. I know a number of other bloggers who are really happy with it as well.
http://www.cybersoc.com Robin Hamman

I use, and have had no problems with, statcounter. It’s got all the features you’d expect, particularly as there is a free AND invisible version available. I know a number of other bloggers who are really happy with it as well.
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