If you’re like me, you’re probably always looking for the best of the best when it comes to a great statistics/analytics product for your blog or website. I’ve been using Google Analytics for a few years now, and I’m not impressed at all. While I have no way of proving it, I feel like it’s not accurately reporting the right numbers for me, so within the last month I’ve been searching like a mad man for a better product to use for this blog. And I’ve finally found one.
The product is called Mint, and if you haven’t taken a look at it before, you are missing out. This is absolutely the best program I’ve ever found and it completely blows Google out of the water.
Mint is a stand-alone program you run in a subdirectory on the website you’re interested in using it with. It’s like wordpress in alot of ways. Very easy to use, runs off of a databse, and has plugin like features, called pepper (singular and plural form).
Some of the feature highlights that are included with Mint are:
- Visitor Tracking – breaks down site activity from the past day, week, month and year as total page views and unique visitors.
- Referrers – are broken down by newest unique, most recent and repeat referrers as well as grouped by domain.
- Searches – filters out referrals from popular search engines which can then be grouped as web or image search results.
- Pages – illuminates your most popular and most recently accessed content and allows you to flag or watch individual pages for later review.
- Bird Feeder – reveals feed subscription patterns for the past week, month and year as well as click-through from individual feed items.
- User Agent 007 – scopes out browser families and versions, platforms, common resolutions and Flash plugin versions.
- Real Estate – can help to plot out a target, above-the-fold design size based on your audience’s common browser window width and height.
- Paneless Panes – Mint’s compact, easy-to-digest interface adapts to the size of your browser window and the number of installed Pepper.
There a literally tons of other features that can be added as well with all of the different pepper that are available.
If you’re in the market for a great statistics tool for your blog/website, then make sure you check Mint out. It’s only $30 for a single site license, and a full-site demo is available to try before you buy.
Mint has no affiliate program and doesn’t plan on creating one (according to their FAQs), so don’t think I’m just trying to push something on you so I’ll make some money. This is really a great tool. Don’t let something this great pass you by.
I’d like to hear what you are using to track statistics for your blog or website in the comments below.
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My name is Steven Sanders and I'm a Professional Blogger, Izea Insider, Web Designer, Social Media Enthusiast, Dad, Husband, and Friend.
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I checked it out. Looks good. I agree with Google analytic being questionable. Same with the ad program..
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nice information, really help me to promote my blog..
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I’m currently using Google Analytics.
Steven, do you have reason to believe this will be more or less reliable than Google? I agree sometimes what I see on Google just doesn’t seem to add up, so I’m just curious if this has features that makes it more trustworthy.
Thanks,
Matt
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Good find and thanks for posting. The information that is most to me is there and much more. Stats are importing to all of us
@Matt | Small Business Entrepreneur: Google Analytics is so limited in the information it gives.
Mint displays: How many visitors by the hour, week, day, month, and year. The referrers by specific page that referred you and when the referral was made as well as repeat referrals. It shows your most popular pages, as well as give you the option to watch specific pages. It sends you an email whenever your blog makes it to the front page of popular sites like Digg and Technorati. It shows all the search terms in the major search engines that were used to access your blog. It shows bounce rates, pages per visit, and google page rank of every page that’s been visited. It shows your money made from adsense as far back as two weeks. It shows visitor comments. It can email you whenever a specified action happens. It shows visitors browser info as well as operating systems, whether they have javascript, or flash. If you have adwords setup to link to your site, it tells you everytime your site is visited through them. And it shows you every outbound linked clicked on your blog (most popular, and most recent).
Google Analytics can’t do all of that.
I’m using the free stat function within mybloglog at the moment, and I do feel it misses quite a few visits from time to time. Will check this mint out, thanks for the info.
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@ Steven
Thanks for the reply, I’m going to check it out.
Matt
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oh, I like the sound of that bird feed…Analyitics are definatly missing that!
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