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12 Most popular Analytic tools used for blogs

When you create a blog, the most important and necessary thing required is some tool to monitor web traffic to your blog. You need to know how many visitors are coming to your blog to get the progress of your blog. There are many free tools available that offers many features that can help you a lot in analyzing your blog. It’s better to stick with one or two which matches your requirements the most. Here I m listing some of the most popularly used tools with their some features, which are used by most successful bloggers.

1. StatCounter: StatCounter is mostly used by bloggers. It can also provide data in invisible mode. It sends the statistic report to you on weekly or monthly basis ,provide statistic what keywords your visitors used to reach your website, it displays from where your visitors came from in the big map.

2. Google Analytics: Google Analytics supports a lot of features like it provides report in PDF formt, emails the report to the blogger, and tracks all campaigns, integrated with AdWords. This tool is very famous among bloggers.

3. Freecounterpro: Freecounterpro focuses on natural search engine traffic analytics. It provides tons of detailed real-time statistics and in-depth information on the search terms that drive targeted traffic to your websites. It provides with the features to getting more visitors, get more money and get better ranking.

4. MyBlogLog: Through MyBlogLog you can generate your own sidebar widget with in your account, browse other people’s blogs and find suitable co-bloggers or contributors to your blog, it helps to create blog memes; it helps find other blogs with similar rankings to yours and message the blogger to request a blog roll exchange. MyBlogLog is owned by Yahoo.

5. AWStats: AWStats is powerful log analyzer which creates advanced web, ftp, mail and streaming server statistics reports. It can be run through a web browser CGI or directly from the operating system command line. It can analyze log files from Apache, W3C log format, WebStar and most web, proxy, wap and streaming media servers as well as ftp and mail server logs.

6. TraceWatch: It provides full information about latest visitors, determine quality of your navigation system, fast Loading Web Based stats report pages accessible from anywhere, private or public stats report pages, tracewatch is Multi-Language (Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Deutsch (German), Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Seribian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.)

7. Clicky: Clicky has customizable dashboard, a lot of widgets that you can put on your blog/website, even for iGoogle , it tracks custom data for every visitor, it supports affiliate program, which earn money when you refer someone, Spy (a live view of your web site) which look like Digg.

8. Wordpress Stats: Wordpress Stats provides Integrated Stats System, categorize and Tag Your Posts, Lots of Privacy Options, including Members-Only Blogs, automatic Spam Protection.You can add “widgets” to your sidebar and rearrange them without touching any HTML code or messing up your blog

9. Site Meter:
Site Meter's comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience.

10. Mint: In mint visits breaks down site activity from the past day, week, month and year as total page views and unique visitors, referrers are broken down by newest unique, most recent and repeat referrers as well as grouped by domain, searches filters out referrals from popular search engines which can then be grouped as web or image search results, pages illuminates your most popular and most recently accessed content and allows you to flag or watch individual pages for later review, bird Feeder reveals feed subscription patterns for the past week, month and year as well as click-through from individual feed items, real Estate can help to plot out a target, above-the-fold design size based on your audience’s common browser window width and height.

11. Feedburner Stats: FeedBurner Stats provides Live hits, conveniently translated to your local time zone, breakdown of feed readers and aggregators, email services, web browsers and bots by which subscribers are accessing your content , subscription data, Inbound referral traffic breakdown ,Outbound click breakdown, it shows Detailed historical traffic by page, it calculates Percentage visitors that are new visitors to your site today , Percentage traffic from other direct links and the specific pages that drove that traffic and Percentage inbound traffic from search and the specific queries that drove the traffic .

12.Reinvigorate: Reinvigorate provides real time statistics including number of active visitors, site and path information, session information including visit duration and visit depth, site traffic that shows hourly, daily, month and yearly visitors, page views, returning visitors and view depth. This is shown in graphical and table format, Visitor detail that shows browsers, platform, screen resolution, timezone, geolocation, and language and region

And do share which tool would you prefer for your blog and you think is good to use.

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