Top Blog, Website Tracking and Analytics Tools

If you have a blog or website and want to track aboutyour blog’s traffic and statistics so you can see how things are progressing compared to your expectations. Based on what you find buried in your stats, you can take steps to guide your statistics (traffic) in the right direction. Here are some popular tools to track your blog’s traffic and statistics. Most of these trackers require you to place code in your blog or website file where it sees the code with every page refresh. Typically, right before the HTML tag.

Alexa

The Global Leader in Analytics 
Alexa is the leading provider of free, global web metrics. Search Alexa to discover the most successful sites on the web by keyword, category, or country. Use our analytics for competitive analysis, benchmarking, market research, or business development. Use Alexa's Pro tools to optimize your company's presence on the web.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience. With this information, you can improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web. This guide can help you familiarize yourself with the main features of Google Analytics. To start using Analytics, sign in with your Google Account.

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004.[1] FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.

Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system. Though it initially was not clear whether advertising would be well-suited to the RSS format, authors now choose to include advertising in two-thirds of FeedBurner's feeds.Users can find out how many people have subscribed to their feeds and with what service/program they subscribed only. 
Published feeds are modified in several ways, including automatic links to Digg and del.icio.us, and "splicing" information from multiple feeds.FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service, providing web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. As of October 5, 2007, FeedBurner hosted over a million feeds for 584,832 publishers, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds.

Histats

Histats Get your statistics in monthly, daily, or even hourly format with this tool. You’ll get stats for every page, a click counter service, visitor path tracking, and more.

Features: LOG features: IP tags, IP tracking, visitors path , maximum detail on each single event on the site, advanced segmentation ( IP, COUNTRY, CITY, REFERER, SEARCH ENGINE KEYWORD , ENTRY PAGE, VISITED PAGE, BOUNCED VISITORS, VISITORS HARDWARE, LANGUAGE, ... ), segmentation filters can also be saved and loaded

HitTail

HitTail is a site that tracks the keywords people use in search engines that refer visitors to your site. It keeps track of those keywords and shows them in a list that is ordered from most popular keywords used, to the long tail keywords.

Crazy Eggs

The Astonishing Power of Eye Tracking Technology Without the High Costs Crazy Eggs provides a Heat map

A Heatmap is an easy way to understand what users do on your site. It's a visual representation showing you where users click and what they do.

Heatmap reports let you see what's hot and what's not so you can make changes that increase conversion 
Even tools like Google Analytics can't provide you this information (read below to see why) 
You will see your first results within a couple of hours even if you have low traffic

StatCounte

StatCounter is aVisitor Analysis for Your Website 
StatCounter's mission is to help their members easily understand their visitors, so they can make good decisions to become more successful online. 
Features:

• Use StatCounter to monitor actual human activity in real-time
• StatCounter can be used 100% free of charge - no credit card required
• Straightforward install process - add a few lines of code to your site

Woopra

If we compare Google Analytics’ with Woopra then Google Analytics inaccurate reporting is the service’s use of sampling, which means using a subset of data. Google Analytics often uses sampling for both collecting data and generating reports based on your data. That means that Google Analytics may only be collecting data on some of your visitors and/or only using a portion of that collected data when generating your reports.

Some Woopra users see a discrepancy between their stats on Woopra and on Google Analytics. The primary reason for this discrepancy is each service’s reporting method. Woopra’s data is always more accurate than that of Google Analytics.

Woopra never uses any kind of sampling. Since we report at the individual level, rather than simply aggregating, we always collect your full set of data. Woopra’s reports are based on this full set of data and are generated instantly. Google Analytics’ reports, which are often based on only portions of your data, take up to 24 hours to generate.