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Top 10 Web Analytics Trackers on the Web
This is number three in a series of posts this week on the Top Web Bug Trackers we saw at Ghostery during June.
Noteable:
- Full blown domination: Google Analytics, Google’s data collection machine, accounts for 80% of the distribution among the Top 10.
- Three sleepers on the list: StatCounter, Woopra and Crazy Egg.
- Quantcast is 4x larger than it’s larger, better funded competitor NetRatings SiteCensus.
- Crazy Egg, brought to you by the masterminds behind Kissmetrics, has more paid customers than WebTrends a pioneer in the Web Analytics world that was founded in 1993.
| Rank | Tracker |
|---|---|
| 1 | Google Analytics |
| 2 | StatCounter |
| 3 | Quantcast |
| 4 | Omniture |
| 5 | Wordpress Stats |
| 6 | SiteMeter |
| 7 | NetRatings SiteCensus |
| 8 | Woopra |
| 9 | Crazy Egg |
| 10 | WebTrends |
| Web Analytics Analysis by Ghostery - June 2009 | |
Please let me know how can we make these reports better.
Methodology: This data was compiled via the GhostRank submissions of our users. Thanks to all of you who have opt-ed into sharing the bugs you find with the community none of this could be possible without your contributions.
GhostRank is an opt-in feature included in Ghostery that allows users to submit the bugs they find across the web.
Today we measure the existence of web bugs on a per-domain basis (E.g. google.com, wordpress.com, etc). What this means is that sites like “tumblr.com” and “blogspot.com” would only count as one site when in reality there are 1000s of sites hosted on those platforms under subdomains, i.e. “ghostery.tumblr.com”.
Future versions of our tracker reports will be based on subdomains in order to more accurately measure “website” distribution.
