Traffic data for your web site is a veritable gold mine. The problem is accessing that data quickly, easily, and in an interface that just makes sense. The majority of analytics services fail in all regards. You wouldn't be here if your current analytics service met your needs. The good news is that Analytics Expert Tracking is different.

The real time advantage

Analytics Expert Tracking is a real time web analytics service. This means that when you login and view your stats, you are seeing up to the minute data on the traffic to your web site. Most services don't let you see what's happening "today" until the day after.

Real time data lets you react to changes in your traffic as they occur. For example, if you had an article that hit the front page of a popular site like digg.com, you would see the traffic spike in Analytics Expert Tracking immediately, along with links back to the sources sending you the traffic. Knowing this, you could make changes to your site or to the article itself to take advantage of the situation.

If instead you relied solely on a service like Google Analytics, it would be up to 24 hours before you even knew about the traffic, and by then it would be too late to do anything about it.

Today vs. the past

Common choices such as yesterday and the last 30 days are available as default options. You can also view a custom date or date range by clicking the last item in the menu, "Custom date range...". With this option, you can view a date range for any report with up to 1 year of data. The exception is the Visitor log and the Action log pages - these are limited to 31 days maximum.