Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#1

Post by cskakun » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

So tired of crappy website analytics tools. GA is off the table. I using it, setting and up and wasting time trying to understand the new lingo around it.

Mixpanel is good, but it's more for events.

I need a good analytics tool that works in real time and shows me where my signups are coming from(exact urls, domains, etc). Confused at how GA does this and mixpanel cuts of the urls so I can't get the full link to visit it in the browser.

This is a simple thing to ask for. Wondering if anyone here can point me in the right direction.

Please HN! I'm depending on you.

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#2

Post by dangrossman » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 6:07 PM UTC

I created Improvely to meet that need. Might be what you're looking for? Some sample reports:

https://www.improvely.com/demo

http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/organic

http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/person?id=nflbfl...

Hope you don't mind the self-promotion.

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#3

Post by i0nutzb » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 9:04 PM UTC

Analytics are not my forte, but back in the day Woopra had it's glory moment.

https://www.woopra.com/

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#4

Post by cskakun » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #2

I created Improvely to meet that need. Might be what you're looking for? Some sample reports: https://www.improvely.com/demo http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/organic http://demo.improvely.com/reports/mywebshop/person?id=nflbfl... Hope you don't mind the self-promotion.

I damn well don't mind the promotion if I find what I'm looking for :)

This looks like a big improvement over the above. I see sources, individual hits and events for all types of things.

One thing that gets on my nerves a lot is the need to change projects to view individual stats. Maybe this is still here but hopefully you have an API to pull those stats in another view? :D

Looks really good. Can you send me an email at clinton.d.skakun at gmail.com to tell me more about the paid plan? I'd like to know how many projects I can add and the views for projects.

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#5

Post by MalcolmDiggs » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 10:31 PM UTC

I'd highly recommend that you integrate Segment.com. Paste it into your site once, then toggle on/off all the analytics tools you want. That's probably the easiest way for you to browse through the current tools that are available without actually having to manually integrate each one.

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#6

Post by dangrossman » Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 12:32 AM UTC

MalcolmDiggs wrote: post #5

I'd highly recommend that you integrate Segment.com. Paste it into your site once, then toggle on/off all the analytics tools you want. That's probably the easiest way for you to browse through the current tools that are available without actually having to manually integrate each one.

You'd probably want to integrate their analytics.js library rather than Segment.com itself when it comes to testing/playing. The hosted service segments what integrations you can use by what plan you're on; to try out Salesforce's $25/month service, for example, you have to pay Segment $350/month.

https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#7

Post by cskakun » Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 1:11 AM UTC

MalcolmDiggs wrote: post #5

I'd highly recommend that you integrate Segment.com. Paste it into your site once, then toggle on/off all the analytics tools you want. That's probably the easiest way for you to browse through the current tools that are available without actually having to manually integrate each one.

Hmm, that's one option. Then I can view the data how I want. Thanka

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#8

Post by cskakun » Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 1:13 AM UTC

i0nutzb wrote: post #3

Analytics are not my forte, but back in the day Woopra had it's glory moment. https://www.woopra.com/

This looks good as well. Wondering how many good tools there are out there that I've missed.

Re: Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

#9

Post by MalcolmDiggs » Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 3:50 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #6

MalcolmDiggs wrote: post #5

I'd highly recommend that you integrate Segment.com. Paste it into your site once, then toggle on/off all the analytics tools you want. That's probably the easiest way for you to browse through the current tools that are available without actually having to manually integrate each one.

You'd probably want to integrate their analytics.js library rather than Segment.com itself when it comes to testing/playing. The hosted service segments what integrations you can use by what plan you're on; to try out Salesforce's $25/month service, for example, you have to pay Segment $350/month. https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js

Ahhh, very nice option. Even better! Thanks!