Close to Perfect Metric Software For Bloggers
Because of my friend David Krug’s absence, pMetrics went down for practically all of April. But now I’m working over at Performancing, pMetrics is back up, and I still encourage you to become a member and track you stats with what, in my view, is the best real-time site analytic software out there.
I’ve got to be honest. I’ve never been satisfied with the various stats programs for my blogs. Whether it’s raw server side logs analyzers or javascript stats like Analytics or a WordPress plugin like shortstat, I’ve never been able to get the clear picture of visitor behavior that I’d like to have.
That is until now. I’ve been trying out pMetrics from Performancing now for close to a month and I absolutely love it. Simple (unlike Google Analytics) yet feature rich, pMetrics gives me all the information I want, no more, no less.
The coolest thing about pMetrics is that you get detailed information about each user without having to drill down 5 levels in the navigation. One of the things I hate about Google Analytics is that although it is powerful, finding the information you want has never been intuitive or easy. pMetrics solves this issue.
But pMetrics offers you more. Have you ever wanted to get a good sense of real-time user behavior? pMetrics has a Spy function; a real-time stats-ticker that shows each and every user behavior at your site, as it happens in real time. This information is priceless and can provide the details you need to increase site usability. You can also monitor, in real time, the results of any marketing and promotion that you are involved in.
pMetrics also offers a great picture of visitor demographics and geography, breaking visitors down into countries and even cities, and then plotting this information on Google Maps.
The basic version of pMetrics is available for free, but I highly, highly recommend upgrading to the advanced version for only $15/year (just a little more than $1/month). The advanced version includes Spy (real time visitor stats) and RSS feeds so that you can syndicate your stats and view them in an RSS reader saving you time and energy.
I can’t say enough good things about pMetrics. If you’re a stat junkie like me, but have always found stat programs lacking for one reason or another, give it a shot. You’ll love it.
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Thanks for the tip. I fully forgot about pMetrics. It’s changed since I last used it and looks outstanding. I especially love the realtimeness of it. Yes, that’s a word. I just coined it.