A few years ago (late 2004) my mate sent me a link to a nifty little service called reinvigorate. It offered off-site tracking (like Hitbox and the rest) but also a few things more. I checked it out and put the tracking code on a few sites just to take it for a test drive. I was immediately (well, a few days after implementation) impressed. The statistics it was gathering were unbelieveable. I could see my visitors in such detail I could have sworn that someone at reinvigorate was reading my visitors minds.
The stats included the standard stuff such as hit per day, ip address logging, and duration of visit. But that is about all it shared with the rest of the competition at the time. It also offered details on the types of browsers the site was being seen in. Not just the type, but the browser version, the screen resolution, the platform (OS), platform version, and other user stats. Visit stats included specific page impressions, referrers, exit pages, and more. I cant remember all of the features at the moment, but there was more there than you could shake a stick at.
For a while, things went well. Then, reinvigorate seemed to disappear. The site and tracking went down and many a user was bummed to go back to our old tracking systems. Little did we know that Sean, the statistics ninja behind Reinvigorate, had some ideas to make things better. We, the users, just had to wait until he was finished. In May 2005 reinvigorate sent me a message saying they were nearing completion of the new system.
On January 29th of 2007, at nearly midnight, and after a long day (as well as the previous night) of work, I get this message from reinvigorate:
You have been invited to join the Reinvigorate private beta.
My first thought is: Who? What? Then, a few seconds later, my head clears and I am fully awake. I had been invited to join the beta for their new services. *score*
I click the link, enter my info, hit Submit, and taken to my account page within about 20 seconds (far too long in my opinion). I take a moment to look around at all of the tabs and options that are available to me. I’m a little disheartened at all of the empty reports (no data you know), so I start adding my sites to my account. I start with my personal sites, my blog, and add a clients site to test out everything. Adding sites to track was simple, as was adding the code required to track the sites. After that reinvigorate took care of the rest.
Now, I don’t have a lot of busy sites, so it was probably pointless to keep checking every 5 minutes for the next few days, but I did anyway. The amount of reports reinvigorate can shell out to you are staggering, so it took me a few hours to see what everything does.
I have been using the new Reinvigorate for the last 6 weeks and have been supremely impressed with it. Below are some of the reports (and I do mean some) that are available to you once you sign up. So if you are wanting a great statistics and tracking system then sign up for the all new Reinvigorate and signup for the beta. And if you are good, they will send you a beta link (not really true as they send them out randomly, but being good never hurts).
Once again, click here to get in on the beta.
-Cheers