{"id":5010,"date":"2013-09-08T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myglasseye.net\/news\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2013-09-10T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T23:58:10","slug":"analytics-for-clicky-mac-app-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myglasseye.net\/news\/analytics-for-clicky-mac-app-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac app review: Analytics for Clicky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love tracking visitor stats on my websites and right now I have a bit of a thing for Clicky<\/a>‘s really user-friendly interface. Google Analytics is running as well of course – it’s free and has incredible visitor tracking power but it’s also got a steep learning curve. Clicky’s interface isn’t so fussy and puts all the important stuff up front with plenty of levels to drill down into Goals, Conversions, Outlinks and so on. There’s monthly tariffs and a free option if you only have one site to track.<\/p>\n

Because GA can be so daunting there’s plenty of third party apps trying to do a better job of presenting the key data – on my iPhone I turn to Quicklytics<\/a> and on my Macs I use the GAget dashboard widget<\/a> by Zoltan Hosszu, which graphs visits, new visitors and bounce rate in a lovely panel just a keystroke away.<\/p>\n

I find these sorts of apps really useful to get a quick fix of stats so once I got Clicky all set up properly I started looked around for something similar, a little widget or menubar app to save me going to the Clicky website all the time (lovely as it is!).<\/p>\n

\"mac-app-store-download\"<\/a>Right now the only Mac app filling the niche for Clicky users is a handsome-looking little menubar widget called Analytics for Clicky ($3.99)<\/a>, and so I gave it a go.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/h2>\n

Analytics for Clicky lives in your menu bar as a little pie-chart icon and digit representing current visitors on your site. Clicking it brings up a clean display of all the headline stats from Clicky’s site, organised via tabs: Dashboard is essentially ‘The Basics’, listing today’s visits, uniques, average actions and duration, and bounce rate; and the Content, Search and Links tabs list today’s top ten pages, in-bound search terms and referring domains.<\/p>\n

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The tabs keep the array of Clicky stats organised neatly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh, and there’s Settings but that’s really just for your login and setting up the visitor alert, which will buzz you if the number of simultaneous visitors on your site passes a certain threshold.<\/p>\n

Pros and cons<\/h2>\n

Like GAget, Analytics for Clicky is focussed on quickly scratching that stat-check itch and it serves that purpose admirably; it’s always just a click away, updates every few minutes, and looks great with a clean, organised interface. The range of stats packed into the tabs gives you a great overview of the day your site has had so far, and the fact it’s all live combined with the ease of access in the menubar makes using the app quite addictive, particularly at first.<\/p>\n

Given all that, and also that it’s the only Clicky app for Macs out there right now, it feels a little churlish having niggles but there’s just a few things I’d like that I think would make it an essential purchase. In no particular order:<\/p>\n