Best Free Site Analytics App ⏁ For Website Owners With A Free Bonus Website Software.

Website Analytics Software Choices

When it comes to software code that will give you detailed feedback of your websites visitors, there are quite a few choices out there. There are basically two types of website analytics programs

1. Third Party Hosted Analytics: these are analytics apps where the code resides on another website. Their servers do all the work and host all the data. You simply plop a few lines of javascript code on your blog or website and they do the rest. To view the data you log in to their website with your account. Examples of these types of web log analytics programs include:
   • Google Analytics.
   • Web Stats.
2. Self Hosted Web Analytics: these type of analytics software apps you install on your own web server. You log in to a page on your own website or blog to view detailed visitor information. Examples of these type of web log analytics include:
   • Matomo(formerly Piwik).
   • Open Web Analytics.

Dashboard Images Of Google, Web-stats, Piwik And Open Web Visitory Analytics

Google Analytics Visitor Tracking Dashboard.

Google Analytics Visitor Tracking Dashboard.

Web Stats Free Visitor Tracking Technology.

Web Stats Free Visitor Tracking Technology.

Piwik Free Visitor Analytics Dashboard.

Piwik Free Visitor Analytics Dashboard.

Open Web Analytics Visitor Tracking Dashboard.

Open Web Analytics Visitor Tracking Dashboard.

Best of Two Worlds - Web Analytics And Visitor Chat In One

Although it is not really advertised as such, Tawk.to, a free visitor chat application, also has some pretty nice built in visitor analytics features as well.

Tawk.to application is advertised as a software program that allows you to communicate with your website visitors, live, in real time. Although Tawk.to is extremely robust and one of the best chat applications, here is the description, from their website, about the live visitor analytics features:

Track and monitor the visitors on your website in real time, watch as they navigate from page to page within your site. Gain key insights in to visitor behavior, and track their geographic location, return visits and much much more.

Tawk To Built In Visitor Analytics Dashboard.

Tawk To Built In Visitor Analytics Dashboard.

Without a doubt, Tawk.to website visitor statistics and analytics is not anywhere as in depth as the other ones mentioned above but you may not need an analytics program that is that in depth. Decide for yourself.

Analytics Information Provided By Tawk.to

The visitor monitoring panel of Tawk.to shows you, live, the visitors on your website or blog, what they are doing, and how long they have been doing it.

• The precise location of the visitor.
• The visitors IP address.
• The exact pages the visitor is visiting, live.
• How many minutes and seconds the visitor spends on each page.
• The device/operating system the visitor is visiting with, ie, PC, Mac, Iphone, Android, etc.
• The web browser they are using.
• How many times in the past the visitor has visited your blog or website.
• The ability to ban the visitor with a click of a button.

Tawk.to Bonus: Live Visitor Chat

If you have a blog or website where it is to your advantage to be able to chat live with them and they with you, Tawk.to is second to none in this department and what is great is that it really is 100%, totally free, and they don't even use advertisements.

The chat application sits out of the way as a tiny strip on your website at whatever location you prefer such as the lower left or right corner. Anytime your visitor wants to talk to you, they have that extra sense of security, in regard to doing business online with you. In fact you can see the Tawk.to chat application on every page of this website in the lower, right corner.

How to Install Tawk.to

Installing Tawk.to chat and visitor monitoring application is very fast and easy:

1. Visit their website to sign up and create an account at http://www.tawk.to.
2. Verify your email address.
3. Clicking the email verification link takes you to the set up page for the chat and analytics app where you enter information about your website or blog such as the site name and url.
4. Install the short block of javascript code to your website and if you have a blog Tawk.to has plugins so you don't have to mess with code if you don't want to.

You can have your visitor monitoring and chat dashboard, for Tawk.to, either be a webpage at the Tawk.to website OR you can download the software program to your computer and monitor the visitor from within the software.

Tawkto Administration Page To Customize The Chat Analytics Application.

Tawkto Administration Page To Customize The Chat Analytics Application.

What I like best about Tawk.to is that you are killing two birds with one stone. This is good, website performance-wise because each script that has to be called and every plug in loaded is another object that slows down the rendering of your websites pages. When you can bundle both the chat application and website visitor analytics in one swoop, it just makes good sense.