Tracking
Statistics and tracking are an important tool for every website, and especially for a social network where user interaction is the fuel that powers the community. While Google Analytics is a robust standard solution that is primarily aimed at marketing, there are other solutions with some bells and whistles Google doesn’t offer. A discussion on Hacker News called my attention to Clicky, a pretty cool service that offers exactly those feature Google Analytics is missing.
It has realtime statistics, you can track single users and there’s even a Google Maps integration the see where that user comes from. There’s only one drawback: to get the interesting features you have to upgrade to a paid version (whereas Goggle Analytics is completely free). I think I will go with the free trial for a while and then upgrade when traffic sets in. Hope this doesn’t last to long…
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