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Get Clicky – sees what Google can’t?

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You are surfing without a care…but a sweet little application called GetClicky is helping the site’s owners see exactly what you are up to- in real time! Created with blogs and smaller sites in mind, this web analytics tool lets you get as close to your visitors as is virtually possible.

The rave reviews are because GetClicky is perhaps one of the few sites to offer RSS feeds and SPY features. It uses Google Maps (which ironically enough, Google Analytics doesn’t), to give you the geographic location of your visitors as well. All this in addition to regular reports on number of visitors, pages visited, and all those details a research person craves for.

The application is free for low traffic sites, while others get a premium account at quite an affordable rate. If you are looking for blips, the wow features (SPY etc.) are available only for paying customers.

Straight from Portland – Our chat with Get Clicky

How does Get Clicky compare to Google Analytics?

Services like Analytics concentrate on summarizing your traffic and calling it a day. That's great, but completely useless for smaller web sites. Clicky provides nice looking summaries too, but we also let you delve into the details of every visitor to your web site, which is extremely interesting to small site owners. We also have a much cleaner interface than other services like Analytics, whose triple-layered sub-menus with oddly named choices like "Defined Funnel Abandonment" and "Visitor Segment Performance" make it difficult to find what you're looking for.

As well, we offer a number of features that Google does not, such as RSS feeds, Spy, and Google Maps integration.

Do you have any solutions for pay per click?

No, but we're looking into it. We're currently working on tracking outbound clicks, and we'd really like to track ad clicks as well. Since most PPC ads are displayed via Javascript, however, that adds another layer of complexity. Ad clicks probably won't make it into the first version of our outbound click tracking, but definitely down the line at some point.

Besides giving detail on every visitor, how does Clicky differ from the competition?

Lots of ways! We created a chart (http://getclicky.com/compare) comparing us to most of the other big boys in the analytics world. While we are lacking in a few areas like being able to export your data (although we're working on that), the chart showcases the unique features of our product that you won't find anywhere else.
We also think our interface is key. It is very clean, very simple, and well organized. We get comments all the time on it, which absolutely makes my day.

Why is Clicky ideal for blogs?

Most blogs have very low traffic, so we think our service is appealing to them because of the level of detail we provide for every single visitor. As mentioned before, most analyzers provide overall summaries and nothing else. We go well beyond that.

Who are your ideal clients?

Clicky is aimed at bloggers, but the service works great with any web site. Any client is a good client.

What are the capabilities of your demo versus the full version?

The demo is the full version. If you mean free accounts vs premium accounts, the free accounts don't have access to the RSS or Spy features, and they are limited to a few weeks of detailed history. But you get a free 21 day trial of the premium service when your first sign up, so you get a taste of the full capabilities.

What types of reports does Clicky produce?

Most of our reports are the standard fair: unique visitors, page views, and popular searches/links/pages. But it's the way they are linked to the rest of your traffic data that makes them interesting. For example, when you view your popular searches page, you can click on a search term and be taken to the visitors’ page which will then only display the visitors who arrived at your site via that search term. Soon it will also show things like the average number of page views, time spent, and most common entrance/exit pages for that search.

Or if you're looking at your popular links (refers), you can click the domain name of one and see all the visitors who came from that domain. You can then view the session details for any one of those visitors.

What is the thought process by making it free to all users with less than a 1000 views per day?

Our service has grown completely by word of mouth. We originally planned to make it a pay only service, but realized that we would be losing a lot of our users and in turn our voice to the world if we did that. So we decided to pursue other revenue streams such as advertising and licensing, offer Clicky for free to our target market (low traffic sites), and have an insanely affordable premium version for those with high traffic sites or who just can't live without amazing features like the RSS feeds.

Does Clicky assist in search engine optimization?
Not currently.

Are there any security issues that you have to communicate to your customers and prospects? If so, what are they?

We aren't aware of any security issues that arise from the use of our product.

Posted by Sally Richardsson       Posted at 01:22AM Mar 22, 2007 by Sally Richardsson   


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