Analytics Tool Review: GetClicky

An analytics tool is a fundamental part of an Internet marketer’s life. Through monitoring visits, traffic sources, bounce rates and conversions, a good analytics tool helps a you get an idea of how well you’re performing and how you should adjust your strategies. It also helps a marketer gauge results when you’re conducting split or multivariate tests.

One popular analytics tool is GetClicky and in this review, I'll be talking about why it's a top choice for most Internet marketers. What I like about it:

1) Presentation – GetClicky's interface includes a dashboard that shows you reports on visits, actions made by visitors, time spent on site and bounce rates. GetClicky presents these figures in a comprehensible manner and if that's not enough, it allows you to customize which reports you want to see on your dashboard.

2) Real-Time Data – Real-time analytics data is helpful in that it gives you the opportunity to change certain components in your web page or blog post depending on the data you get.

Here's an example: if you're in the middle of a launch and you see your landing page is getting attention only from your e-mail blasts, you may want to shift your focus to social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. By putting a Facebook ‘Like' Button or a ‘Tweet This' button on your landing page, you could easily spread the news about the new product you're launching. Without GetClicky's quick result tally, you could miss out on areas of opportunity and just find out about it when it's too late.

3) Reporting Features – As mentioned earlier, GetClicky shows you reports on visits, actions and bounce rates. What makes this more fascinating is that you're able to expand on your visits and action reports. For visits, you get to check how many unique visits and new visitors you have. For the Actions reports, you can find information about page views, downloads, outbound links, clicks and video. GetClicky tells you what's going on, who's visiting your site and what they do in it too.

GetClicky also shows you where traffic has been coming from. You can trace the visit geographically and you can find out which website linking to you referred the traffic. Lastly, it can show which pages in your site are common entry points for users. This will allow you to determine the factors that make a page a crowd-drawer.

4) Twitter Search – GetClicky can literally tell you how popular you are on Twitter. This is a helpful feature because it can track down search queries, retweets and mentions in Twitter that involves your website. With it, you can easily gauge how well you're performing in this social media hotspot.

5) Application Programming Interface – GetClicky allows you to integrate your tracking data with other applications you might want to use. This is useful, say, if you want to create a custom widget for your WordPress site that shows data from GetClicky.

6) Visitor Espionage – GetClicky's super-cool feature called "Spy" allows you to snoop in to whoever's visiting your site. It tells you what they click most and which pages they visit most of the time. This is an awesome feature if you want to find out what component in your website catches the attention of your visitors. Also, it's a great tool for finding out where you want to place ads or affiliate links.

7) Mobile Phone Feature – If you're on the road and you want to be constantly checking on your real-time tracking data, don't fret. GetClicky has a mobile phone version of its interface and you can access the GetClicky website and your account from there.

The Take

With real-time data and a user-friendly interface, GetClicky gives Internet marketers the opportunity to gauge their website's success without delay. While it's true that most of its features are inherent in other analytics tools, it's the extras like real-time data and Twitter Analytics that make it unique enough to stand as a must-have. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who's serious about measuring success and improving their business based on accurate, credible data.