Clicky Web Analytics is a comprehensive and real-time website analytics tool designed to provide website owners, particularly bloggers and smaller websites, with a detailed and personal understanding of their visitors.
Key Functionality
- Real-Time Tracking: Clicky offers real-time visitor action tracking, allowing users to monitor their website’s traffic as it happens. This includes tracking page views, the number of visitors, and various other metrics in real-time.
Key Features
- Dashboard: The Clicky dashboard provides a high-level overview of the current activities on your site. It enables easy comparison of daily, weekly, and monthly metrics such as visitors, page views, bounce rate, and popular content. Each site has its own customizable dashboard.
- Visitor Insights: The “Visitors” section offers detailed information about who is visiting the site, including the time of visit, country of origin, total time spent on the site, and the referring source. The visitor log shows the number of actions each user takes, allowing for step-by-step tracking of user behavior.
- Spy Feature: One of the standout features of Clicky is the “Spy” tool, which allows users to watch what visitors are doing on their site in real-time, click by click. This provides immediate feedback on user interactions.
- Big Screen: This feature offers a real-time view of website stats, including visitors online, actions taken, total and average time on site, bounce rate, goals, revenue, top referrers, and top search terms. It is particularly useful for tracking live campaigns or new content.
- Custom Events and Goals: Clicky allows users to log custom visitor actions and declare goals via JavaScript events. This can be done using the `clicky.log()` function, which is especially useful for tracking specific actions like button clicks or menu interactions. These features are available with premium accounts.
- Alerts: Users can set up alerts for various events such as goal completions or visitors arriving from specific search queries. Alerts can be received via desktop notifications, sound alerts, Twitter, or email.
- Multiple Dashboards: The ability to create multiple dashboards per site, with the option to assign each dashboard as the default for any sub-user, enhances flexibility and user management.
- Improved Bounce Rate Tracking: Clicky’s tracking code periodically ‘pings’ the tracking servers while a visitor remains on a single page, providing a more accurate bounce rate calculation.
- HTTPS Tracking and Google Search Rankings: Clicky supports HTTPS tracking and also provides insights into Google Search rankings, helping users understand their site’s performance in search results.
- Twitter Integration: Clicky includes a feature to track what people are saying about your brand on Twitter, making it easier to monitor social media mentions and engagement.
Additional Benefits
- No Technical Expertise Required: Clicky is designed to be user-friendly, requiring no technical expertise to set up and use.
- Free Basic Version: The basic version of Clicky is free to track one website, with no credit card required and no auto-subscription after the free trial.