Your Analytics preference?

jadehouse · 2007-08-10 03:49:53

With so many new analytical options coming out of the woodwork lately, I’d like to see what some of you TXP folks are using.

I’ve only used Google Analytics and Mint so far. Google’s gives more features out-of-the-box and seems to give a far deeper insight into the information it gathers. Mint on the other hand runs on your own database, so it won’t cause your website any slowdown, the stats are live, you can output any of that information (naturally), and the best part is the “peppers” — 3rd party addons for your Mint installation.

The next best analytics option I’ve noticed is W3Counter, something I plan on trying on my next project. It’s very clean, like the others, but I really like having the analytics on my own server.

I’m really not big on analytics (beyond referrers and unique hits), so I’m not the best person to say which of these is better. I hope you guys (who have used many of them and know this stuff well) can give some real insight.

lozmatic · 2007-10-12 13:01:43

I use Google Analytics for my personal web work because it’s very good and, most importantly, is free.

Do you have a budget for analytics?

sthmtc · 2007-10-12 16:00:27

i’m using reinvigorate for a while now and i’m quite happy with it.

ps: i’ve used mint before but prefer reinvigorate now.

Last edited by sthmtc (2007-10-12 16:01:03)

Manfre · 2007-10-17 14:25:36

I occasionally slap google analytics on to my site, mostly because it’s free.

I use the firefox noscript addon, which pretty much negates all of the services that use 3rd party hosted javascript.

jadehouse · 2007-10-17 15:24:46

Manfre, that’d block google, mint and w3counter… wouldn’t it? (They all use JavaScript.) Never even thought about that. Odd.

Manfre · 2007-10-18 15:05:11

jade, it does block those and any ads that require remote javascript.

markdevis · 2007-10-31 07:28:07

Hi all of You

It is good to use google analytical because I am also using google analytical for my various sites

Thanks

colak · 2007-10-31 07:38:58

I find slimstat to be the best one – although there is still room for improvement. Wet’s plugin also makes it a breeze to configure with txp.

iblastoff · 2007-10-31 08:20:40

markdevis wrote:

Hi all of You

It is good to use google analytical because I am also using google analytical for my various sites

Thanks

errr not sure how that logic stands but hats off to you :)
the only issue i have with google analytics is the seemingly random update pattern they employ. i’ve read that its approximately every 4 hours but personal experience has told me otherwise.

as a sidenote, the ‘quote’ function on this board is annoying! i always have to add textile (a full ‘bq..’) to make sure the quote actually gets quoted and then add my own p tag to separate mine from it.

Last edited by iblastoff (2007-10-31 08:23:13)

Manfre · 2007-11-10 16:07:32

iblastoff wrote:

Hi all of You

errr not sure how that logic stands but hats off to you :)
the only issue i have with google analytics is the seemingly random update pattern they employ. i’ve read that its approximately every 4 hours but personal experience has told me otherwise.

as a sidenote, the ‘quote’ function on this board is annoying! i always have to add textile (a full ‘bq..’) to make sure the quote actually gets quoted and then add my own p tag to separate mine from it.

Blockquotes is one of the big (IMHO) failures of textile. I tend to favor typing the blockquote html tag instead of bq. or bq...

net-carver · 2007-11-13 14:03:17

Like Colak, I’d go with slimstat for a few reasons…

It’s free, but you can support it if you want to.
No signup required.
It’s php based so you don’t miss folks who visit with javascript disabled.
(Edited to add) It has it’s own plugins too.

Coincidentally (and slightly aside), just 2 days ago, I was thinking that closer integration with Txp would be a nice plus for slimstat. Wet’s plugin does the job but you still need to navigate to another URL and password protect access to it. Would be nice if it could sit in the TxP admin interface as another tab or within the logs tab of the existing interface — this would eliminate the need for another location and login.

Last edited by net-carver (2007-11-25 15:20:50)

mlarino · 2008-09-05 12:20:29

I just finished my Textpattern site, and started using Google Analytics, but doesnt seem to work…
I placed the script in a form to be loaded in each page… is there something else I am missing?
Is there a way to track what pages are visitors looking at?

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