The Hottest Web Apps
Pagealizer is a web analytics tool which does a number of neat things including showing how far your visitors scroll down you web page.
It will also track visit length and where people are clicking (although not as elegantly as Crazyegg). This is a product to watch in the future.
This time CrazyEgg provides a hosted and free heatmap service showing where people are clicking on your webpage.
Designers and those into User Interface Design will ove CrazyEgg because it will give you very accurate data on how users interact, click and view your website.
ClickHeat is a free self-hosted heatmap script. This app will give you a visual representation of clicks on a webpage, showing what’s hot and what’s not.
This is a great tool to see how effective a design is and how users are interacting with your site. Its free and very easy to setup on your server.
Thanks to Twitter and other micro-blogging platforms, the number of quality URL shortening services has sky rocketed. Cli.gs provides the basic url shortening service but with some really powerful analytics features.
Cli.gs will track who is clicking the link, where they come from and even how popular it is in sites such as Twitter.
Popuri.us will gie you a quick and easy overview of how popular your site is. The service displays your Pagerank, Alexa, Compete, Bookmarks etc.
You can also grab a handy widget to display the results on your website.
We love simple tools and Clicky adds a new level of simplicity to the field of web analytics. Clicky, available at GetClicky.com provides dead simple web analytics. Although its dead simple, Clicky manages to be extremely feature rich (we dig the “spy” feature which gives you a real-time view of who’s visitng your site.
Clicky is free, real time, and looks great!
We love instant. And getting website statistics in real time is a great bonus. We find Google Analytics to be a bit of an overkill for the majority of users, so we really dig how simple W3Counter is.
W3Counter provides real time websites analytics and displays them in a simple and easy to read fashion. It may not have all the features of other providers but it includes all the vitals. And we dig the ajax interface.
Want to know how well you have built a website? WebSite Grader is a free SEO tool that will give you rsite an overall score, as well as a myriad of useful data on how to improve your site.
We really dig the depth WebSite Grader goes into – from social bookmarking links you have all the way through to whether you have a conversion form or not. Plus you can also put your site up against your competitors to sell how well you compare.
Nothing beats free – check out WebSiteGrader.com