IceRocket follow-up: Is it really real-time?
InstantSpot News, Stat TrackingJust a quick follow-up to my previous post on the newest free stat tracker I am running on this site.
Like other stat trackers, IceRocket has the site's statistics broken out in to various tabs to allow more focused info.
- Summary - Summary of hits and unique vistiors. Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly with the ability to select date ranges and such.
- Rank - Daily Rank trend. IceRocket ranks their tracked sites. (not sure exactly what it is based on...visitors? hits? some combination?)
- History - Daily History trend. This is somehow related to ranking...not sure.
- Content - See what pages are being visited on your site. Daily or Monthly with the ability to selecte a date range.
- Referrers - Just what you think it is, what site referred that visitor. Daily or Monthly with the ability to selecte a date range.
- Keywords - See what searches you are turning up in. Daily or Monthly with the ability to select a date range.
- Countries - See where your visitors come from. Daily or Monthly with the ability to select a date range.
- Last Visits - THE ONLY REAL TIME SECTION - See what new visitors are rolling in. This is real time and pretty neat to watch on a heavy traffic day. Details what link was clicked, the source of that link, the user's OS, the user's browser, the user's screen resolution, the user's country of origin and their IP. Daily or Monthly with the ability to select a date range.
I think I still like IceRocket better than Google Analytics...for its simplicity and at least part of it is real time. If you only check your statistics every few hours then IceRocket would appear nearly real time to you. I think they update the other sections (the tabs other than "Last Visits") every couple hours or so.
Josh Tynjala said:
I just switched to IceRocket's blog tracker too. In general, I like it better than Google Analytics. It seems to have just about everything I want. I wish it showed Flash version stats, though.
Ryan said:
Aaron,
Do you plan on providing support for IceRocket in future releases of InstantSpot?
Ryan
Do you plan on providing support for IceRocket in future releases of InstantSpot?
Ryan
Aaron Lynch said:
It already does support IceRocket...thats how I am using it :)
The admin section for tracking scripts is coming very soon.
The admin section for tracking scripts is coming very soon.
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