I had hoped they mentioned the two leading open source Analytics options as GA alternatives:<p><a href="http://piwik.org/" rel="nofollow">http://piwik.org/</a><p><a href="http://www.openwebanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openwebanalytics.com/</a><p>Regardless, GA works in <i>most</i> situations at present and will continue to dominate the market. It is due for some much needed upgrades though.
In other news, web analytics software is a very crowded marketplace, the competition is stiff. Best not to enter it unless you have something really new and interesting to offer.
I've been thinking about building an analytics package geared towards SaaS. I've found it very difficult to track different types of users and their associated revenue in tradition analytics packages (GA, GetClicky, even MixPanel). I've always envisioned a simple analytics package based entirely on user types. Think visitor, free/demo account, paid account 1st level, paid account 2nd level, etc...<p>I think this is an important missing functionality in many of the existing solutions and I would definitely pay for something that made it dead simple, would HN agree with me?
Des has very aptly compiled a list of the leading analytics tools and we’re honored to be included in this list alongside so many great tools (We use and love Chartio and Mixpanel).<p>I also definitely agree that it would be rather difficult for a single umbrella tool to cover everything, so segmenting the field into traditional web analytics, event-driven analytics, and social analytics makes a lot of sense. We hope to become the industry leader in the rapidly growing social analytics space, but our vision goes beyond that - like you said, Google Analytics primarily drives Adwords sales, whereas with social analytics, there are so many more actionable things you can do. Crowdbooster hopes to guide its users towards that end with our data-driven insights and actionable recommendations, such as telling you the best times to send out content (and giving you an easy way to schedule that content for delivery).
Hummingbird's premise seems like it kind of misses the ball, it certainly would be cool to see a real-time stream of analytics, but what would you actually do with that feature? Seems kind of gimmicky, but I agree with the author in that it could find a home in some other analytics package.<p>Definitely a solid list of interesting options in the analytics space, thanks for the share.
I've often wondered why someone doesn't combine analytics with more traditional executive dashboarding, ie show me revenue per click, per visitor, etc. There is more to most businesses than can be measured in just a website.
Wow, great to see that round-up on one page.<p>Question for HN - does anyone value real time analytics for anything other than a physical LCD dashboard? Personally, I guess it's nice to have, but I wouldn't pay more for it.
you've completely left off mobile analytics!<p>i'm not sure startup analytics are so different than larger company analytics (i work for a large ecommerce site doing analytics).<p>might just be my opinion, sitecatalyst can be overly complicated/difficult to implement but it really does have some unique strengths also. it is also one of the more expensive tools though.