Getclicky Introduction

You may know many traffic tracking solutions, the most famous and popular one is Google Analytics. Here I want to introduct another similar tool, GetClicky.com. Why? Because it looks cool and has some unique and useful features.

First, what you may not know is Google Analytics updates data on daily basis. Therefore, you can't see real-time traffic data there. But GetClicky.com can. I think it's very useful, especially for new sites. I strongly suggest you create a hourly traffic tracking sheet for a new site so that you can closely monitor your site performance at the begining. It's always good to know what is your peak hours and when your traffic begins to drop.

Second, beside viewing visitors by locations, IP address, host names, and organizations, you can name your visitors and choose to ignore traffic from particular visitors. I use this feature to filter visits from my team and myself. In this way, I know the real traffic to my sites. Google doesn't have this feature.

Third, it has a "spy" view feature. You can watch a visitor comes in, browses page by page, and then leaves your site in real time. It is meaningless but fun to spy.

Last but not least, it has an iPhone version. It is cool for all road runners.

The service claims to have more unique features than other traffic analytics softwares. However, not all of them are that useful. It has a free version, but you will soon find out you have to upgrade to enjoy its advantages. My major concern is that it has daily pageview limit. That means it only targets at small sites and webmasters have to move to other platforms once your sites grow up.

Anyway, it's a well designed online tool. If you are a small sites owner, it is worth trying.