TomTom Live Traffic is a free to use web service that lets you view live traffic conditions from around the world. The traffic data is gathered from 80 million mobile phone users on the road and 1.6 million connected TomTom devices. You can browse over to your part of the world and view the traffic conditions as shown on the map. You can also zoom into a car icon and see the traffic delay time there.

You can also view and find incidents in the information visible at the left pane of the website.

Features:

• Lets you get traffic condition online.
• Gathers data from 80 million mobile phone users on the road and 1.6 million connected TomTom devices.
• Displays traffic delay times.
• Lets you search for individual incidents.
• Similar tools: TrafficAmigo, Waze, DUIMap and RiskyRoads.

Check out TomTom Live Traffic @ www.tomtom.com/livetraffic (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The people behind the site promise that some new features like email alerts, timezone support, custom scheduling, traffic delays due to construction and subscribing via SMS are coming soon. You can’t currently log in to edit your settings, and that’s in the coming soon list too.

Features

• Get get traffic alerts by text.
• Currently US only.
• Enter you cell number, city and pick the alert times in EST.
• Timezone support, email alerts, custom scheduling coming soon.
• Clean and simple user interface.
• Similar tools: Waze, DUIMap and RiskyRoads.

Check out TrafficAmigo @ www.trafficamigo.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Each icon on the map represents a fatal DUI accident and the color of the icon tells you how many other DUI crashes occurred within 1 mile. You can see the time and date of each accident by clicking on the icon. The details also tell you how many people were involved in the accident and how many people died. The map allows you to zoom out displaying the activity at the state level or zoom in to see it at a town or block level.

Features:

• See DUI accidents on Google Maps.
• See number of accidents within 1 mile.
• Zoom in or out for to adjust scope.
• See details of each accident.
• Similar mashup: RiskyRoads.

Visit DUIMap @ www.duimap.org

Once the app installed, it will passively record your route as you drive, and send data to Waze to update the live traffic information map. For example, Waze will know that you are stuck in traffic and appropriately update the map for others to see.

You can also actively send reports with a few easy clicks. For example, if you come across an accident or construction work that obstructs traffic, you can make a quick report for other users to see. You can also take a photo of the road and upload them to the live map.

The strength of Waze is its user-generated content. With its crowd-sourced philosophy, users can update or report errors in the live map. The more users use Waze, the better the live maps are.

In fact, Waze added a little incentive for users by giving points for hitting a waypoint in the live map. These waypoints will show as goodies in the live map. Users can drive over these goodies to help the Waze community complete the missing data in these maps.

Waze is the perfect tool for drivers that demand real-time data where today’s GPS maps cannot deliver. With updates from the Waze community, everything happens in seconds.

Features:

• Free downloads available for iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and other mobile systems.
• User-generated real-time maps help you navigate while driving.
• Quickly tells you if there is traffic, accident, or road blocks.
• Easy interface allows users to update maps by adding in missing roads, street names, junctions and more.
• Available live maps all around the world.
• Take live photos and upload them to update the map.

Checkout Waze @ www.world.waze.com

You start by browsing for a picture of your website from your computer. This picture should be less than one 1MB and either in jpg. or png. formats. After you have selected the picture of your website, click ‘Heat map.’ This will take a few seconds to load.

You will then see the same screen shot you uploaded, just with various colors on it. Click (the magnifying glass with the flame) to enlarge the image.

So what do all of these numbers, lines, colors and circles mean?

The number shows the order in which a persons eyes move, with the lines representing that movement. The colors show the quantity of interest. If the color is bright blue, there is minimal interest. If the area if bright red then it is a main focal point. The circles resemble the size of the focal points.

Features:

• Generates visual heatmap for uploaded images.
• Save created heat map onto your computer.
• Ability to zoom and change the opacity of the picture.
• Helps you find weak and hot spots in your website design.
• Free, and no need to sign up.
• Premium accont with more features is also available.
• Similar tool: CrazyEgg.

Check out Feng-GUI @ www.feng-gui.com (via Ben Lang, by Alex Ainsberg)

For example, when I visited the site the graph showed the percentage success/fail of the big search engines; Yahoo!-Bing, and Google. The graph was easy-to-read and what’s more it was accompanied by a news story. This is something I found particularly fitting with Global Stat Counter ““ it gives the news as well as the statistics; I found this makes the graphs more credible and without them the site would just be a bunch of graphs with no real context.

There are several categories which Global Stat Counter keeps track of in the tech world. These include; Search Engine Usage, OS Usage and Browser Usage. Not only this but you can also  select where in the world you want to get statistics from. By default it is set to Worldwide but you can further narrow it down to continent or even to a specific country.

When you have found the statistic you want you can do one of three things; save it as a jpeg image; download it as an Excel document or embed it using the HTML embedding code provided.

Features:

• Keeps statistics in technology industry from around the world.
• Gets stats on Search Engine Usage, OS Usage, Browser Usage… etc.
• Stats are based on 5 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.
• Ability to select particular world region.
• View stats as line or bar graph.
• Download the graph or save as image.
• Share graphs by embedding.
• Related news headlines are included.

Check out GlobalStatCounter @ gs.statcounter.com (by Dean Sherwin)

The counter starts counting visitors as soon as it is added to the site. Clicking on the counter bring up live overview of visitor. View visitor profiles by county, check visitor statistic over time, visualize data on graphs, see forecasts and pageviews.

See sample counter below:

Features:

• Free visitor counters for website or blog.
• Simile and easy to embed.
• Customize counter in terms of design, color and font.
• Shows detailed overview of your visitor statistics.
• Similar tools: 99counters, Amung.us, FlagCounter and FeedJit.

Check out TrendCounter @ www.trendcounter.com

There is nothing to install, you simply sign for a free account, get the trackin code and insert it into a template file of your website.

When it comes to reportsing, reports available for the last day, month, 60 days and a full year.

Features:

• Free wtraffic anayltics service for your blog or a website.
• View detailed information about your visitors (browser, OS, screen resolution).
• See where most of your visitors are coming from.
• View referring URLs (blogs, search engines) and search keywords.
• View most popular pages of your website.
• Quick and easy to get started. Nothing to download or install.

Check out 99Stats @ www.99stats.com

Mon.itor.us monitors your website from multiple locations and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS. Besides these, it has internal monitoring features like keeping an eye on computer/server memory, CPU, etc. with an installable agent. It also features real-time visitor monitoring.

Features :

• Online website monitoring and tracking service.
• Monitors your website and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS.
• Provides information helpful in maintaining high uptime of the site.
• Internal monitoring features.
• Also features visitor tracking capabilities.
• Similar site: Site24×7.

Check out Mon.itor.us @ http://mon.itor.us (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

The total number of visitors from each country is also shown next to the flag. Clicking on the counter reveals additional information such as visitor disitrbution on a pie chart, flag map and total page views for each country.

Check out sample counter below

Features:

• Get flag counter widget for your website.
• Customize your counter: number of flags shown, flag columns, title, background color, text color and border color.
• Free and very easy to add.
• Similar counter tools: 99counters, Amung.us and FeedJit.

Check out FlagCounter @ www.flagcounter.com