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Happy Birthday, Google Analytics

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Google Analytics turned 10 years old on November 12. But I still think this is a good time to praise the power of analytics. If you aren’t sure what I mean, just think about all that a good analytics solution can do for your brand. The harsh reality is that analytics is necessary to the healthy growth of your business.

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Piwik: The Google Analytics Alternative

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For the longest time Google Analytics was the only free open source analytics program. Many online marketers opted to use a paid analytics program so they could keep their information private and away from Google’s eyes, or they had other reasons. It’s called Piwik. Features include: Full ownership of your data.

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6 Alternatives to Google Analytics

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I believe most website owners are still using Google Analytics. There are perfectly valid reasons for not using Google Analytics. Another reason you may not want to use Google Analytics is because the data is unsecure. Here are six viable options to Google Analytics. Clicky – Clicky is 100% real-time analytics.

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SEO Without Analytics?

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Whether you are a big business executive, middle manager, or a small business owner, you’d be hard pressed to succeed at SEO (or any Internet marketing) without the use of analytics. You could say that analytics are the eyes and ears of the marketing department. Analytics measures results. You can measure success.

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5 Free Alternatives To Google Analytics

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I’m not suggesting you should give up on Google Analytics, especially now that they are in the process of rolling out Universal Analytics , but if you do decide to look around for other analytics services, here are five free alternatives to Google Analytics you might consider. Plus, it supports WordPress.

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Twitter Has Rolled Out Analytics Tool

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Recently, they made public an analytics tool that is wrapped up in their advertising platform. So what kind of data does Twitter Analytics offer? There is also a tab for getting data on your followers, but I clicked it and got a screen that said “Sorry, there is not enough data to display analytics at this time.

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Google Analytics Adding New Ways To Analyze Web Sites

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Google have added two new features to their Analytics tool. The new tool added to Google Analytics makes it easy to see at a glance how a page is performing over time. Users are looking for fast page loading times – Google Analytics will prove to be a valuable tool for measuring your page loading speed.

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