Clicky - Web Analytics Tool for Your Website

Posted on April 18, 2008 at 5:33 am

If you are a blogger or a website administrator, you may already be familiar with the term “web analytics”. According to Wikipedia, web analytics is the study of the behavior of website visitors. Using a web analytics tool, you can get essential web traffic reports such as how many people are visiting your sites, where most of the readers are coming from, how many hits your website gets per month, which blog posts gains the most attention and a whole lot more.

Next, you can start using the reports to your advantage by improving your site content, optimizing the layout and so on. If you are looking for a tool to empower your website with web analytics, Clicky is an excellent choice.

Clicky is an online web analytics tool that is easy, fun, and drop dead gorgeous. It has a slick interface and will work with any website, including AJAX or Flash based sites. The AJAX-based interface is fully customizable and is very newbie friendly.

To use Clicky, you need to sign-up to the service and insert two lines of HTML code to your blog or website template, as simple as that. About half an hour after that, you can access your Clicky account again and start seeing some juicy analytics data flowing in (provided that somebody accessed your website half an hour ago!).

Clicky Web Analytics Features

Dashboard - the first of many Clicky tabs. This tab shows all of condensed analytics report for your website. Quickly find out how many people visits your site, your most popular content, incoming links, most popular search engine keywords and more.

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View your data between certain duration of time - for example, you can view the amount of visitors starting from two weeks ago.
Analyze and compare a subset of visitors using various filters. For example, you can check out how many people in the United States that visits your site on a particular day.
Get nitty-gritty visitor details - this allows you to get to know each of your visitors in detail and see every action by every visitor. You can find out which page did he went to, what kind of web browser did he use and more.

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Actions tab allows you to see what your users are up to.
View a visitor history with a simple click.
Filter your visitors based on country, city, language, hostname, organization and more.
Compatible with HTTPS based sites.
Track outbound links - this tells you which external sites did a user went to by clicking a link from your site.
Track downloads - this is one of many unique feature of Clicky compared to other analytics service.
Track your most active users.
Track custom data on a per session basis for your visitors!
Spy tab allows you to view real-time data for your website.

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Clicky supports the tracking of visitor with Javascript disabled in their web browser.
Clicky web analytics data is accessible via multiple sites or tools - RSS, developer API, widgets, iGoogle, Vista sidebar and more.
Integrated Google Maps support to show the last 100 visitors of your website.

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Integrated FeedBurner support shows your current number of RSS subscribers.
Extra: you can also join an affiliate program that helps you to earn money by promoting Clicky to other web masters / bloggers.

You can access all Clicky web analytics features for free in the first 21 days. Once the trial period ends, some of the advanced reports like real time data will not be available, except for premium users. However, you can still continue to use the basic Clicky features for free, that supports up to three websites, which is a pretty good deal too. In my opinion, Clicky is one of the easiest web analytics tools that I will definitely recommend to anyone out there looking to jump into the world of web analytics. Try it today!

This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya

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9 Responses to “Clicky - Web Analytics Tool for Your Website”

Abhijeet from Jeet Blog said on : April 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am

Nice find! Certainly looks a good tool and worth trying.

Alek Davis said on : April 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am

I have been using Clicky (AKA PMetrics or Preformance Metrics) with my Blogger account and I love it. I prefer it to Google Analytics (unlike the latter, Clicky gives me easy report on client host names, so I can see where people are coming from; can’t figure out how to do it in Google Analytics). I wish I could integrate Clicky with my WordPress blog, but it does not seem like I can (at least not with a free WordPress account).

akishore said on : April 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Abhijeet - Yeah Clicky is definitely a cool analytics program. Definitely check it out if you’re not already using something.

Alex - I think if you go to Visitors and then Map Overlay, you can see where visitors are coming from in Google Analytics. I’ve been using Google, but I might use Clicky for a new blog!

Alek Davis said on : April 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Map-Overlay is pretty cool; thanks Aseem. However, it still does not show host info for visitors like Clicky does, e.g. some.company.com 5 actions, some.other.company.com 3 actions, etc.

akishore said on : April 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Ohh I see what you are saying. I checked again and I think if you go to Visitors, you then have to click on Network Properties. Under that there is an option called Hostnames.

I’ve actually not looked at that myself…it has lots of IP addresses and a good number of domain names. Cool!

Alek Davis said on : April 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Hmmm… I’m not quite sure what the Hostname graph shows. It does not seem to point to client’s host addresses. Must be something different. Looks nice, thought, just not the info I need. This is why I like Clicky. It’s pretty basic and simple, but it gives me exactly what I need.

bboing said on : April 18th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

Clicky is the way to go. It misses some key features (imho) like bounce rate and returning vs. new visitors (which google analytics has) BUT its a great web analytics program and its not creepy as google analytics see http://www.blogboing.com/index.....y-or-nice/

Sean said on : April 19th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Clicky has bounce rate but only in the premium versions.

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