PULSE RSS - RAINBOW POWERED?
14th April 2007
As a regular (ish, need to write more frequently!) blogger its always nice to have some statistics at hand either for some serious site seo / ad campaign tracking or just to see how people are finding your site. At the moment this means loading in some code from google analytics.
Yes, google analytics is a webmasters wet dream, recording everything and anything about the person viewing your site. However the average joe has to spend 20 minutes deciphering what everything means and will normally get lost in the endless number of pages and tools when all they wanted was the basics.
As with every other stats package (that i know of) you have to log in to their admin area, with the normal issue of remembering the web address, username you used etc. You'd think there'd be an easier way...
There is, its pulse rss
A user-friendly, statistical web-service. Please note the 'service' part as this is its big advantage.
Once signed up you can add as many sites as you like and view them all in a simple AJAX'd interface which is simple and attractive (good designer & programmer).
Now here's the killer feature, once you've added the code to your site and set up your account, you can view all of your sites data from almost anywhere as the information is also available in RSS, XML, Netvibes, Google and Yahoo formatted feeds. All you have to do is add the relevant url to your 'feed reader' of choice, personally I'll be adding mine to my google home page.
Just to seal the deal, its also completely free!
For all those people that need ad tracking and in-depth detail about every single visitor then keep your analytics. For anyone else, give this a try!