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Free alternative to Google Analyitics???

by derh
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I want to get rid of Google Analyitics but I want to still keep track of my sites and sub-domains....

I use WordPress....

Any Ideas??
#alternative #analyitics #free #google
  • Profile picture of the author TZ
    My wife and I have been using good old Statcounter since 2004 - it gives us enough information to know what is going on our WP blogs.

    It's free too....... ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author SamirSM
      Originally Posted by TZ View Post

      My wife and I have been using good old Statcounter since 2004 - it gives us enough information to know what is going on our WP blogs.

      It's free too....... ;-)
      Agreed. Statcounter shows more than GA, way more. Even the IP of the visitor. You can block the counter from recording your own visits as well as as visits by other users by creating a cookie or adding the IP addresses.

      You can see the exit links as well as downloads from your pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author LarryHaywood
    I did a little research and found some decent alternatives to Google Analytics for Wordpress blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    GA works best for me - but I'm not using WP though.
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    • Profile picture of the author johnro
      Hi Guys, I use Piwik - Web analytics - Open source , it does almost the same as google analytics. Its great and a the best alternative for google analytics You just need to install it on your own server, not that difficult, hope this will help you out. I can't post links lol, just posted my six message. just do a google search for piwik.org
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      • Profile picture of the author Stormchaser
        Originally Posted by johnro View Post

        Hi Guys, I use Piwik - Web analytics - Open source , it does almost the same as google analytics. Its great and a the best alternative for google analytics You just need to install it on your own server, not that difficult, hope this will help you out. I can't post links lol, just posted my six message. just do a google search for piwik.org
        Thumbs up! Piwik is the way to go.
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      • Profile picture of the author F1SEO
        We're also using Piwik on trial and I have to say it's very good.

        I'm very suspicious of one company having stacks of my data (Google) and my clients' data. So I'm going to be ploughing along with Piwik. Looks damn good, and it's FREE!
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    I'm not familiarize with these other tools aside from google analytics. I'm into it but i should try also these tools for some purposes.
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  • Profile picture of the author bodders71
    I still use Google Analytics but StatCounter is a pretty good alternative. If you're doing a lot of tweaking on your site it's really good to be able to set it up to ignore your own site visits in order to give a truer picture of your page hits..

    Hope this helps...
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    • Profile picture of the author Wechito
      I also will recommend StatCounter. As far as I know it is the best alternatice to google Analytics, but it has less features.
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      • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
        Agreed Statcounter stands out amongst the rest (and has a new Beta version on the way) and for the level of “Drill down” gives more than enough info for most of us.

        Very fast to setup and add to your website, recommended!

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  • Profile picture of the author themew
    Our biggest concern with GA is it slows down the loading of the site.

    Any experience any slowdowns or speed increases using Piwik on their server or Statcounter which runs on their own site?
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