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Crazy Egg Review: A New Way to Do Web Analytics

September 25, 2006August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 9 Comments

I’ve been using Crazy Egg — a tool for tracking where your visitors click on a page — for a couple of weeks now, and I am very impressed by it. Read More

Track Visitor Behavior on Your Site for Free

April 19, 2006September 16, 2020 Christian Watson 6 Comments

Still waiting for that Google Analytics account that never seems to arrive? Well, here’s an alternative option to consider.

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Hits – or How Idiots Track Success

March 13, 2006January 8, 2022 Christian Watson 8 Comments

Here’s an amusing post/rant from Intranet Blog on how hits are a meaningless metric but are still way overused as a statistic.

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Blogbeat: Hosted Web Analytics for Blogs

January 25, 2006August 11, 2016 Christian Watson 1 Comment

Blogbeat is a new hosted web analytics service aimed at blogs that joins the ranks of Google Analytics, Measuremap, Site Meter and MyBlogLog (although MyBlogLog is a little different).

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Do You Know What Users are Searching for on Your Web Site?

December 27, 2005September 18, 2020 Christian Watson

Do you know what people are searching for on your site? Got anything interesting to say about it? If so, Lou Rosenfield and Rich Wiggins are conducting a survey – What are users searching for on your site? – for an upcoming book on search analytics for web sites and intranets.

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Track Outgoing Link Popularity on Your Site

October 13, 2005August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

I’ve recently started using MyBlogLog to track which external links on my site are the most popular. Here are my thoughts on the free version of their service. Read More

Web Stats – What to Believe?

November 21, 2004August 6, 2016 Christian Watson 2 Comments

What web stats package do you have? Do you trust it? My web hosting package comes with three pre-installed: Awstats, Webalizer and Analog. I was always pretty content to use Awstats as it produced comprehensive, easy-to-read statistics.

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Smiley Cat Web Stats

January 15, 2004August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

There have been a couple of posts (Andy Budd, Whitespace) recently about stats, so in response to that, I thought I’d post some stats for my site for December 2003. Read More

Using Site Search Reports to Enhance Web Analytics

December 11, 2003August 11, 2016 Christian Watson

Web analytics are an essential tool for managing a website, and packages such as Webtrends and Click Tracks can tell you all kinds of things about how easily your visitors found information, what paths they took to get there, how long they stayed, and how often they returned.

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