Several people have been asking me lately what I use to measure traffic statistics here on One Man’s Blog. Well, in addition to occasionally downloading my server logs and running some software on them to see the official stats, I use Performancing P-Metrics whenever I want to get a quick glance.
Frankly P-Metrics has the most comprehensive feature set around and will allow you to learn more about a site’s visitors than any other package that I am aware of. This includes everything from stats by page, referrer, search words, and even a wickedly cool real time monitor! So I whipped up a demo video to give you a glimpse behind the scenes here at OMB.
pMetrics offers free service for up to 3 web sites and 1,000 page views per day, per site. This will serve the needs of the vast majority of Web sites. They also have two levels of premium service which get you more sites, more features, and higher traffic levels – starting at less than $2/month.
When you first register, you automatically receive 21 days of premium service for FREE! This gives you a chance to try it out and fall in love with some of the features that you won’t find anywhere else.
I’ve also attached a partial chart that shows how P-Metrics stacks up against the competition. It’s pretty impressive.
Finally, here is a video I whipped up of a screen capture of the stats from One Man’s Blog. Its a 10 minute walk through all of the detailed reports that come with the service. You’ve got nothing to lose, so give it a try.
Also, don’t miss my video of What Happens When You Hit the Digg Homepage. It’s a peek at the spy function during a Digging.
Sounds interesting, but I have two questions based on the comparison chart: (1) how does the Wordpres plugin work (I’m on WordPress and love my plugins :) and (2) how does it integrate with FeedBurner? One of my biggest complaints about FeedBurner is that the stats seem pretty minimal.
Good questions. As far as the plugin is concerned, I don’t use it – and it is brand new – but as I understand it, it will integrate the stats into your WordPress dashboard so you don’t have to go to the PMetrics site to see them.
I just have PMetrics bookmarked, so I use that. Seems the same to me to pull it up vs. pulling up the dashboard.
As far as integration with FeedBurner is concerned, you have the option to allow public access to your stats somehow via Feedburner. I haven’t tried it, but the option is there. I think it basically creates an RSS stats feed or something. Let me know what it actually does if you end up testing it. :-)
John
Hm thanks for that information. I currently use StatCounter, but I’m always open to checking out other ways to see some stats! I have also noticed that FeedBurner (while good) does not exactly always provide the optimal amount of information that I would like.
The ability to see stats from the dashboard would be awesome. I’ve never understood why that came as part of the free WordPress blogs (which are useless to me as someone who wants to host on his own) but didn’t come as part of the downloaded versions. As for the FeedBurner part: sounds interesting for sure, if you do try it out let me know ;)
P-Metrics is based off of http://www.getclicky.com . I’ve been trying to private label their metrics as well.
Great, I’ve been looking for a new way to analyze traffic. Google Analytics just doesn’t do what I need anymore.
Thank you so much for doing the walk-through video! That spy feature is great! I have actually been looking for a new way to look at my statistics lately, and now I think you’ve just made up my mind for me! As usual, great information for us! Thanks, John!
Seems like this is a lot better than Analytics as Luke pointed out.. thanks John – I’m going to try this out :)
nice, I’m signing up right now
I’m really interested in that spy feature.. Does it take time to setup ? Like analytics, it seems you have to wait a day to see stats.
Is it just for blogs ? I don’t see how to add my forum :(
I also have Mint, and it is nice, but it is not quite as feature rich, and it puts load on your server as opposed to running as an outsourced service. Mint also annoys me because it has to be continually upgraded and there is no smooth process for doing that.
Either one also requires a javascript to implement. And since they cost about the same, why not use an outsourced provide so you don’t have to worry about all the hassles and put the strain on your own server and database?
John