Top Free Website Statistic Tools

Bradley Nice
Web Development Zone
5 min readDec 9, 2016

by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — software documentation tool

A web analytics tool is necessary for every website to keep track of traffic and create strategies according to it. Fortunately, there are tons of web statistics tools available.

Although each analytics tool has its own unique features, but choosing the right one is of utmost importance. Using multiple analytics tools is really bad for the performance of your website, so you should select only 1–2 tools that offer all the features you need.

In this article, I will list down top free website statistics tools. Choose the one(s) that fits your needs best.

StatsCounter

This one is a free online visitor stats tool. It allows to monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site plus other features.

Site Meter

Site Meter’s real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With its detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Its powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.

FeedBurner

FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. The service also keeps track of traffic coming from feed readers. It shows how many people are currently subscribing to them by displaying a chiklet on websites.

Clicky

Clicky Web Analytics is yet another way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site’s traffic in real time.

ShinyStat

ShinyStat web analytics allows you to get your website information in real time, to create automatic channels, to analyze detailed conversions and marketing campaign progress (CPC, display, video, mobile).

AddFreeStats Free Web Stats

AddFreeStats Analytics provides to webmasters free statistics in real-time on their website visitors. It allows you to keep track of how many people visit your website, when they come, how they found your website and much more. The web statistic tool also allows you to select the tracker design displayed on your website pages: invisible or visible, and it’s free.

Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg’s Confetti and Heatmap features are simple and affordable web analytics and usability tools that allow you to visually understand website user behavior.

GoStats

GoStats is fully customizable and can give you the statistics information that is most important to your web site. You can have a visible or invisible counter. Setup is fast and easy, in no time you can get a wealth of data about your web site traffic and how visitors use your site.

pMetrics

pMetrics is a blog stats package that gives bloggers a more personal understanding of their blog visitors with its clean and simple interface, real-time live statistics and search keyword tracking.

W3Counter

W3Counter is a free web statistics and analytics package. It provides the standard features that web packages usually provide i.e. Visits and Page Views, Feed stats, Sources, System, Browsers, Screen resolution etc. This web statistics tool also lets you store unlimited about of stats.

OneStat Free

OneStat Free is a password-protected free hit counter and tracker for tracking website pages. It monitors and analyzes all the visitors to your website in real-time. Your site is automatically listed in the charts which will drive traffic to your website.

Have a nice day!

Bradley Nice,
Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — best online documentation tool for SaaS vendors

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Bradley Nice
Web Development Zone

Content Manager at https://medium.com/level-up-web 👈. I write about web design, web development and technical writing. Follow me on Twitter and Facebook