I was looking for a tool to monitor the visitors to my blog - and Angad Singh a fellow campus ambassador recommended the following 4 tools:
- Google Analytics - unlimited logs, geographically pinpointing where your readers come from - and also a very cool overlay feature, which lets you walk in the footprint of your readers.
- Statcounter.com - neat tool, but limited to 500 log-entries for the free version
- Sitemeter.com - good tool - especially on the referrer part - so you can track how your readers came to your site.
- Something self-hosted fx. awstats (perl-based) or mint - "pick your poison"
Its been a while since I last played with webstats, so I went for option 1. Its allways fun to check out new Google beta tools. I started out by watching a couple of YouTube videos featuring Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist, explaining how the analytics tool works.
And I admit it, I'm sold - statistics just got a whole lot more fun again.
