Performancing has just just re-launched their PMetrics site analytics package and it looks very promising. I am an over-analyst by nature, so I installed it immediately. I like the free version of Statcounter really well (though the thing with it only keeping the detail for the past 100 pageloads is getting pretty annoying), never could get into Google Analytics, use 103 Bees here and there, and am always game for trying another way of looking at visitors to my various sites.
Here is a short list of some of the features I found to be most interesting:
- A clean, straightforward way of looking at all the data
- RSS feeds for various metrics at any frequency you want (this is one of the things I’m most excited about, though it is only available with the $14.99/year premium service, it’s enough to make even a super cheapskate like me consider it)
- Filter visitors based on country, browser, referrer, search, etc
- Track outgoing links. This feature is also only available on the premium service level, but I’ve been looking for a way to combine referrer stats easily with outgoing links to see which referrers are sending the best “ad clickers” to my monetized sites. If I could get a handle on that I would know where to put my focus in promoting the sites.
I’ll report back at some point with a review.
Interested? Give it a try- click on the image below. You get the premium service for 21 days for free:
Update: The first 100 bloggers to provide an honest review of pMetrics on their blogs will receive pMetrics premium free for 12 months.
It does look good … it also looks a lot like GetClicky (www.getclicky.com) which must be providing the back-end for Performancing.
I’ve been using GetClicky for a while now, and love it!
And here I was thinking it was a new thing- shows how much I know!
Well, it certainly was news to me that they were providing the same service through other brand names!
And besides, I don’t think that many people are using GetClicky/Performancing for their stats tracking, and I think it helps to get the word out.
I agree- it looks like a really good system so far. Makes me wonder why they aren’t more well known. The affiliate program is decent too.
it does look good and seems good but what I dont like is… to still make guests to register just to comment. However, that is one nice way to prevent spammers. Though, it takes a lot of time to register, verify.. then you will know you already forgot what you want to say.
Chino – you’re talking about commenting on the Performancing main site? Yes, I think they’ve made a calculated decision to force registration because one of the main purposes is to build a community.
Webmasters often forget what role plays a good site analyzer. Let’s take for example the country of visitors, i mean, if you find out that 80% come from the united-states, you will try to target these people. The program you describes actually looks pretty good, i’ll try the free trial. If it even tells us what referrers send us the best traffic to monetize a website, i could use that for 1-2 of my projects!
Randa, have you tried Google Analytics since the update to it’s interface? I’m surprised you found it hard to get into, it’s so intuitive at a high level, but has the depth to get some really useful data.
Can Performancing Metrics compete with Google, who has renowned names (i.e. Jeff Veen, I believe) improving it’s UI?
Personally, I think that google analytics pretty much ended the whole ’statistics arms-race’. They released it a few days after I’d just coded my own suite of Analytics tools, which are currently gathering dust on a harddrive somewhere …
This does look good. I like StatCounter, but from the looks of the comparison on the Performancing Metrics website, this has a lot more advantages to it. The integration of Google Maps and the, ahem, “juicy” details on your visitors is also very attractive… it’s one of the things I really like about StatCounter.
Dara I’m sorry to hear about your analytics suite. Do you guys think that Performancing Metrics is better than G-Analytics? From what I understand Google is always adding new features and not to mention, its free.
~Max
I think that Performancing Metrics is not rival for with Google actually. With last updates big G go ahead to all competitors. Also PM have lost spots in web stats.
I prefer haveamint.com for keep website statistics. I highly recommend it!
I’ve been using performancing matrics for a while and found them very helpful.