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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