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Ask HN: I need an actual GOOD analytics tool

6 points by cskakun ↗ HN
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.

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dangrossman
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.

cskakun
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.

i0nutzb
Analytics are not my forte, but back in the day Woopra had it's glory moment.

https://www.woopra.com/

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

MalcolmDiggs
Ahhh, very nice option. Even better! Thanks!
cskakun
Hmm, that's one option. Then I can view the data how I want. Thanka