I would have totally forgotten about my weekly poll, had someone not reminded me about it. The last one ran for about two weeks. I’ve now changed the poll to ask readers what their blog stats tool of choice.
A lot of bloggers are stats whores like myself so we use multiple services. I guess one is not enough (especially if some of them aren’t that reliable).
Here’s the list of the most common ones and you can pick as many as 3 of your favorite tools in our poll:
- AwStats
- Webalizer
- Statscounter
- Sitemeter
- Google Analytics
- Performancing Metrics
- eXTReMe Tracking
- MeasureMap
- W3Counter
- WP-ShortStats or SlimStats
There are more tools out there but I believe the list above represents 90% of what people actually use.
If you’re on a shared hosting environment, you may have AwStats and/or Webalizer pre-installed. Only check them as one of your choices if you actually review your site stats thru these apps on a regular basis. Otherwise, pick the ones that you check or depend on more than the others.
You can vote for as many as three stats tools you most frequently use.
I like Sitemeter for quick data and Google Analytics for a deeper view into my stats.