5 Great (Free) Web Analytics Tools You Might Not Know About Yet
by Rich Page - Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Firstly, let me say that a passionate web analyst like me (Rich Page) is honored to be doing a guest post on such a well respected and insightful web analytics blog! Hopefully you all enjoy this post! Enough from me - on with my guest post…

So believe it or not, you don’t actually have to have a big budget to do great web analytics work. That is certainly a myth. And sure, most people know about the wonders of free Google Analytics, but thought I would take the time to share a few of the other great free tools out there in the web analytics world (excuse the pun Manoj!)

Woopra
This is a great alternative to Google Analytics! Woopra is a very new tool, and is fresh out of the beta oven. This tracking tool is ideal for less trafficked websites, especially for blogs. It offers all the standard metrics that Google Analytics offers, plus two cool features that Google Analytics doesn’t offer. Firstly, it has real time visitor analysis (creepy but great - you can see exactly which source your visitor comes from, the page they are on, and their path around your site etc), and secondly, they offer a great built in chat tool, that allows you to popup messages to your website visitors and actually talk to them - this is great for generating real time feedback or to offer help. Might be worth checking out, especially for those of you looking to try something different than the leading free Google Analytics tool.