The 11 Best Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Google Analytics

2) Google Analytics can dramatically slow webpage loading. I am FREQUENTLY waiting, sometimes for minutes, for other people’s webpages to load and meanwhile Firefox is telling me “waiting for Google Analytics”,and sometimes “waiting for Doubleclick” (Google). I have never heard anyone else mention this, maybe it is just here in Australia that these delays occur?;

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Clicky

Clicky calculate bouce rate differently from most analytics solutions and they’re proud of it. Clicky considers every visitor who spends more than 30 seconds looking at a page as an “engaged” visitor and doesn’t count them as a bounce, even if they don’t view a second page on your site. This makes a lot of sense, since you can’t really say that someone who visits your site, reads a whole post and then leaves was “bouncing”. They just found what they were looking for.​

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Heap

The result of all this is that Heap is incredibly easy to set up and use for anyone. In terms of user friendliness, Heap is the opposite of Google Analytics. In fact, Heap is an absolute joy to set up and use - as a business owner, you should sign up just to see how excellent their onboarding process is.​

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Open Web Analytics

Open Web Analytics is feature-rich, especially considering that it’s free to use. It can track goals along several steps of a conversion funnel, it offers separate stats filtered by pretty much any factor you can think of and it even offers heatmaps and mouse-tracking. However, be warned: with those last two options active, OWA will gobble up server resources like nobody’s business. A shared hosting account will not find this agreeable.​

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Matomo

The fact is, there is no Piwik database import feature. You can not import, merge, or add Piwik data from one Piwik installation into another one that has existing data in it. Therefore, if you want to move a site to another location that is already using Piwik, say as an addon domain, you will lose all of your Piwik data associated with the domain you’re moving.

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StatCounter

Great resource! I have been using GA and StatCounter but didn’t aware of the alternatives. I will definitely take a look at them all. I noticed that both GA and StatCounter don’t seem to give accurate counts – like I can take a look at StatPress WP plugin and they are showing visitors; but both GA and StatCounter showed little to no visitors! Very confusing. I guess I may have to use the hosting log to verify…

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W3Counter

Conclusion: my impression is that W3Counter is a solution aimed at beginners. If you are relatively new to this and unfamiliar with (or overwhelmed by) Google Analytics, W3Counter will give you the basic stats for your site in a free and easy package. You'll eventually want to graduate to a more performance-focused solution, though.

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Chartbeat

One of the tag lines on the Chartbeat website reads "Analytics for Editors". With that, this service declares its purpose and target customer quite clearly. If your website is not a magazine or news style website with many pieces of content published daily, Chartbeat is probably not for you.

#Analytics #A/B Testing #Conversion Optimization

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Gauges

Further, Gauges provides insights into traffic referrers, browsers and screen sizes of your visitors. All the basic data is there, but Gauges didn't manage to surprise me with particularly good or useful features.​

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GoSquared

GoSquared provides a lot of data and presents it in a way that's easy to understand. But you should keep in mind that, in contrast to something like Google Analytics, the emphasis in GoSquared is on identifying trends and getting a view of what's happening on your site right now.​

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Mint was a very minimal, self-hosted analytics solution. It had a very less-is-more approach, which resulted in some seemingly basic features simply not being available. I'm not hugely surprised that Mint was discontinued, given how the competitive space around analytics has developed over the years.

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