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Website maintenance is a crucial issue. Analyzing the data about your website content is a bare bone of website maintenance. Keep a track of how the content of your website is being utilized by the visitors. Web analytics is a cutting-edge tool to gather and analyze the web content data. There is a host of Web analytics applications for the use of webmasters. Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, Alexa and Compete are a few big guns to mention. I took up the less trodden path to explore the lesser known but highly useful Web analytics tools. Here are a few free outstanding Web analytics options.

Piwik, an open-source Web analytics application has been developed using MySQL and PHP. It comes with a plugins system to facilitate utmost extensibility and customization. You can install all the plugins by going overboard or the plugins that you need in particular. You can create custom extensions of your own using the plugins system. This free application is only 1.9MB in measure.

FireStats is another simple and easy to use Web analytics application that is written in PHP and MySQL. It supports such content management platforms as Drupal, Joomla,WordPress and set-ups including C# sites. FireStats comes with an excellent API that is a great assistance for you to create custom applications and publishing components for your own use.

Snoop is an excellent desktop-based Web analytics application that is compatible with operating platforms like Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista. The application works nicely on your system status bar. Whenever anything happens, it notifies you through audible alerts. Using the Name Tags, a highly useful Snoop feature you can tag your visitors to facilitate identification.

Yahoo! Web analytics is a good alternative to the leading Google Analytics. An enterprise level, web-based third party solutions, the application makes it easy for multi-user groups to access any web content data. It is inclusive enough to include tools like real-time data tracking, custom-designed reports and pretty graphs in order to stand up to the expectation of users.
BBClone is a simple, server-side Web analytics tool. You can monitor your data without relying on third-party services. A PHP-based server application, it lets you track the traffic to your website. It provides support for language localization in as many as 32 languages including English, German, Chinese and Japanese. It can easily be integrated with such publishing platforms as WordPress and Drupal.

Woopra is coded in Java. It consists of two parts – a desktop application to analyze data and a web service to check website statistics. Having a robust user interface and an innovative management system, this Web analytics application can run on several sites and domains. It offers a chat feature to help you gather non-numerical information.

JAWStats is another free server-based Web analytics tool. It is competent and compatible enough to run with the popular AWStats. It extends AWStats by improving the performance, the user interface and reducing the server resource usage.

4Q is known to perform analytics by letting you interact with actual users of your website content. Number crunching and numerical data are what this application deals with. It is a simple Web analytics tool meant to survey the numerical data of website content by supplementing it with the user feedback.

MochiBot is especially designed for analyzing the data about flash-based website content. Using this Web analytics tool, you can prevent content theft, identify the users sharing the content and check how many times the content has been viewed. The process to install MochiBot is a cakewalk.

Grape Web Statistics is an easy to use, open-source Web analytics application that is designed for web developers in particular. It has a simple and usable interface. It features an Extensions API with which you can extend as well as customize your installation. It is compatible with any PHP-based operating system.

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