Woopra – web analytics on steroids

if you like Google Analytics, you’ll probably fall in love with Woopra. currently in public beta, Woopra works similar and does the same as Analytics – only live. let it run in the background, and Woopra’s client (available for Mac & Windows) will show you details of every visitor as he enters your site. you [...]

Google Analytics on AIR

just found a very cool Adobe AIR-based desktop-app for accessing Google Analytics…try it out!

Sparky: Alexa toolbar for Firefox!

Amazon’s traffic ranking-service Alexa finally gets rid of its most criticized flaw – strong bias towards Internet Explorer – by releasing their toolbar for the Firefox browser!

it will be interesting to see how strong this is going to affect rankings over the next few weeks, while ‘Sparky’ (the nickname of the Firefox-extension) supposedly experiences some [...]

more stats: Google Analytics

speaking of access statistics: seems like Google is starting to roll out a complete revamp of their Analytics product. like smime, the update hasn’t appeared for me yet, but the dynamic graphing-tools alongside extended reporting features shown in this screencast look promising…

less stats: Automattic Stats

Automattic, makers of notorious blogging-software Wordpress, have released their neat simplified statistics plugin for standalone installations last week (until now, the plugin has been available on their hosted service only). Automattic Stats breaks down access statistics to a few key-benchmarks, providing an easy first-sight overview. furthermore it’s supposedly stable even in high-traffic times (unlike [...]

site popularity at a glance: popuri.us

plain and simple: enter a URL and popuri.us spits out Google- & Alexa-ranking, numerous numbers of backlinks, RSS-subscription numbers and DNS-data. if you are looking for a more advanced tool, check out Competitious which tracks similar data but adds collaborative features.

FeedBurner: RSS market report

RSS-publisher FeedBurner published an extensive report on RSS-readership and -usage, the latter meaning detailed stats on the number of indiviual item-clicks & -renderings (coined “audience engagement”). no big surprise – as mentioned before, Google Reader has taken the market of online feed-readers by storm…

Google Reader now talks back

as of yesterday, Google finally reports back RSS subscription-numbers to content-publishers, which basically means that feed-statistics like FeedBurner can now include the number of readers subscribed to a feed through Google Reader or the personalized Google homepage (this wasn’t possible before, meaning that probably thousands of readers wouldn’t show up in your feed-stats). [...]

how-to game Alexa…

sure, it’s common sense that Alexa’s traffic-stats have to be taken with a big grain of salt (the under-representation of traffic from non IE-browsers is only one major reason). but today Jason Calacanis goes a step further by claiming Alexa can be gamed (=manipulated) with no more than three clients running their toolbar & keeping [...]

beta: Competitious

Competitious is a collaborative tool, helping project-teams to track competing websites in their market. just enter URL and name of a site and watch Competitious automatically collect traffic-data and related blog-posts both from the companies’ blog and from all over the web. users can create feature-lists to compare several services in a feature matrix. comparative [...]