Web Analysis Tool

Can anybody tell me if there is any free web analysis tool, for telling visitor behavior, page views, unique visitors and click fraud detection. How about purchasing onestat.com? which one is best to use?

 

hey do you mean web stats?

You can use google analytics

You can also try statcounter.com

Both of them are script based, do not require a link back and are free

 

google analytics is currently the best free tool. Spend some time and you can understand a lot about your visiotors!

 

Yes analytics is the best tool. But is little hard to use. You need to learn but is worthy

 

Tell me about clicktracks. If Someone has experience

 

well I never tried it but analytics are the best and statcounter is the simplest

by the way your hosting provider would also give you free stats

 

I use Trace watch, awesome, I have to say but seems seldom people use it.

Statcounter is nice but it have limit of page views.

Google Analytics is also great but for seo reasons I don't recommend it.

 

Can you clarify this? I currently use Google Analytics, and am happy with the reporting offered. What's the effect on SEO?

Jay

 

You are exposing your information to Google to improve their algorithm so it can affect your ranking on Google.

For instance, if you have multiple website with similar topic, Google will detect it and not let both of them rank well in Google.

 

Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense.

Jay

 

i heard this henryzeng about google using analytics to see data that probably wouldnlt be bale to see before! I am not sure though how valid it is! It does make sense though!

 

Google bought Urchin web analytics and renamed its -- yep -- Google Analytics. It was a paid service and now it's free. There is nothing really free. That the deal was probably worth around US$30 million and gives Google access to the stats of tons of websites.

So I recommend tracewatch.