A couple months ago I was invited to beta test a new website statistics service called Reinvigorate. The site is another free traffic monitoring service a la StatCounter, Google Analytics, etc. I’ve been tracking a dozen or so websites with it and find it to be a slick, simple and useful tool to get a handle on what your traffic is, what it’s doing on your site and where it’s coming from.
Now, if you are doing some serious e-commerce tracking and need lots of detailed stats that are kept for months and years at a time, this may not be for you. The details on each visitor seem to drop off after a hundred or so uniques. I’m sure this is due to space limitations (which is understandable). You do appear to have access to the aggregate data (uniques, pageviews, view depth, return visits) for at least a year or two.
I’d say, overall, some of the things that stand out about this site is the simple way the data is presented. I love the Summary view which acts as a dashboard of current activity on the site. A unique feature that some sites can take advantage of is the “name tags” feature. This allows you to place some code on your pages to further identify a visitor to your site and track their activity through reinvigorate. For example, if you have a section of your website where users can log-in. If you are tracking info like their name/username and email address, you can have that data tracked inside reinvigorate. The Summary view will even tell you who is currently on your site by their name.
A couple things I’d like to see are rss/atom feeds for each site I track so I can choose different ways to monitor the traffic on my sites. Being able to customize the Summary view with little “snap ins” of data from different sections of the reinvigorate site would be an awesome feature. For example, I could have my “active visitors” on the left, and a graph of daily traffic on the right, with a list of active pages below, etc. I’d also like to see the number of active visitors on each of my sites on the main account view that lists all of my sites. Sometimes, I just want to check in and see what activity my sites have at certain points of the day. This would make that much easier.
If you haven’t already signed up for the beta test, I suggest you do so.
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