Comments on: Clicky – A Great Alternative To Google Analytics

By: andy

andy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:43:08 +0000

GA is more detailed and more accurate.Don’t use both of them.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:36:45 +0000

Joseph…same here. Clicky used to show me almost no clicks at all or sometines a few clicks from just one user (like there was only one user on my page). After removing it from my page and server I went back to GA and now it’s ok. Strange. Could be a bug. I recomm just one of those two. GA is my favorite.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:31:54 +0000

I used to use both GA and Clicky and strangely I had a few problems. None of them didn’t show the results correctly or sometimes there were no results. Then I removed Clicky and GA was ok again. Clicky is nice, don’t get me wrong, but GA is still no.1 for me.

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:34:49 +0000

There’s definitely truth to that – though I think there’s room for both, and actually lots of usefulness in both. Which do you use? And have you tried comparing them to see the differences?

By: andy

andy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:50:01 +0000

It’s all very well, but there is nothing as good as your website hosts server stats counter as cookie based ones can be blocked/misled etc.

If you want accurate results, then you might need to pay.

If you want a basic counter like stat counter etc, or google analytics or clicky then fine, but if it’s for real business, I BELIEVE you should stick with the site host’s method’s. That is my opinion based on what I know. If anyone has alternative opinion’s and experience of webhost based counters then please post your experience.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:35:32 +0000

Thanks. I installed it on one of my domains, brought up a page, then went the Clicky – and sure enough, there was record of the visit.

I have to admit it’s pretty cool not waiting 24 hours for results. So I’m going to play around with it for the next few weeks.

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:23:22 +0000

Good luck! I think you’ll be glad you tried. Let me know if I can help!

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:22:17 +0000

Good points – but for me at least, I’m not that worried about the https support. I don’t really care if someone else can see my stats, but maybe that’s just me. Ad-free’s a great point, though… what do you use?

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:11:51 +0000

Thank you for the article. We use Google Analytics over here, but I wonder if Clicky will give us more. Definitely worth a test drive.

By: Abhijeet Pathak

Abhijeet Pathak — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:36:36 +0000

In free version of Clicky, we miss out the important feature – https support and its not an ad free version!!! So definitely not a way to go..
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.