What are the best alternatives to Google analytics?

Now i've got analytics and also expertcounters, i prefer the latter to be honest. But if i'm honest neither are all that great, for one experts down times getting silly at the moment. So my question has anyone got any other good traffic analysis sites the would recommend? And no i dont want to pay for them lol

 

if you don't want to pay for them then GA is the best. try using Woopra.although it is not the best but it gives the traffic in the real time

 

Really GA? i cant get along with them, i prefer the expert counters, mainly becayse everything is in real time and you have the counter option. Only thing is the counter looks like a 5yr old designed it!

 

Take a look at Performancing.

There are also other aternatives: sitonomy.com/alternatives/stats-tools

 

nice resources dude

 

yeah cheers for that, still think i'm going to have to stick with expertcounters

 

I use Woopra Beta and its amazing. All stats are live. You can see who is on your site live, and send them messages, along with many other features that are not available with analytics. I just switched from GA to Woopra a few days ago and I'm happy so far.

 

Dont you think that might be considered intrusive to your visitors if you can send them messages?

 

just in case you are using wordpress for your site. You could use a plugin called StatPress, they offer real time statistics for your site.

 

i once tried statpress and it cluttered my database and overloaded it with 68mb extra those entries i had to delete them manually =/

 

obviously GA can be its alternative only,only

 

GA is best for me....

 

try statcounter.com, we hope it's best..

 

the best alternative is statcounter.com

 

piwik.org looks interesting

 

Try http://getclicky.com/

 

expertcounter looks like a statcounter clone.

I've been using statcounter for a while now.

 

we're doing a study at analytics.mark8t.com to test them all

 

all sounds pretty good, also yeah i think expert is a stats clone