After my recent post about being frustrated with the ads at StatCounter and their prompt handling of the situation, I though I should write a post about why I have stuck with them for over 1 1/2 years.
I love the front page of the stats. I love seeing all of my sites and the stats for the current day, previous day, current month and life time total. I haven’t seen that global network stats snapshot on any other package.
I know that might be a pretty strange reason to prefer a stat program, but between that and the very intuitive (for me anyway) navigation between the various reports, everything just feels very easy to use.
I also like how easy it is to set a cookie with one click that will make StatCounter count your own pageloads.
And now I have another reason. They care about their customers. For a company as popular as StatCounter to not only see my post complaining about something but also to care enough to ask for more information and then take action based off of that makes me feel very good as a StatCounter user.
Little things like that go a long way.
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I have found the new interface at google analytics to be a much better tool. It just released last week. Well worth to 0$ it cost and by far the best way to check your stats.
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I use statcounter too and I find it better than google analytics, it’s simpler and it gave me more global look to my network.