Clicky Real Time web analytics

Smashing Magazine, Mashable, BuySellAds.com and others, all of them use Clicky real time web analytics product. Yes I know, there are so many solution out there, so why should you choose Clicky Web Analytics over the others. Let's start by saying that Clicky is kind of a more mass market real-time web analytics solution, and it doesn't advertise itself or offers enterprise web analytics features. After saying that, Clicky is on of the most popular web analytics platform in the world. Start bursting out in the beginning of 2009, probably many thanks to TechCrunch who linked to them on September 2008.

Since then, Clicky is gaining more and more customers, many of them choosing the 'Pro' plan. If you ask me how come Clicky became the choice for many website owners, I think it is a combination of few elements:

• Real-time analytics product. The new trend.
• Low price compared to the competition and also a free version for 1 website and up to 3,000 daily tracked pageviews.
• Many useful features that exist also on competitive products.
• Easy to install Wordpress Plugin.
• Other 3rd party plugins for Drupal, Joomla and for all the others, is just as easy as putting few lines of code in your template (like you do with Google analytics).
• Clicky Analytics API for extraction of web traffic data via standard HTTP GET, and you can get a response with JSON, XML, PHP and CSV. You can then use the raw data inside your applications.
• Free 21 day trial of the Pro service for all new accounts

There is no doubt that Clicky's developers hold a winning formula. It proved to be a very popular product, especially among bloggers, but not only. Bloggers with low traffic blog (there are many of them out there), have been give a chance to enjoy a SaaS live web analytics solution for free, and believe me, these are great news.

Clicky Real-Time web analytics offers only Software-as-a-Service (Cloud) solution and it does not intend to make a Clicky Software in the future, at least, that what I have read in the 'Common questions' section on their getclicky.com.

Clicky Web Analytics is divided into 5 planes:

• Free
  Total sites: 1
  Total pageviews: 3,000
• Blogger
  Total sites: 3
  Total pageviews: 10,000
• Pro
  Total sites: 10
  Total pageviews: 30,000
• Super Pro
  Total sites: 30
  Total pageviews: 100,000
• Enterprise
  Total sites: 100
  Total pageviews: 250,000

note: for update plan prices, total sites and pageviews limitations, please visit the pricing page on getclicky.com.

As we've mentioned before, you can register the website and get to try the 'Pro' plan (the most popular one) free for 21 days. This is a truly generous offering, because you can really get an in-depth look and use this real-time web application in all its glory.