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Is there a comparative analysis available for Mint and Google Analytics which can help me decide which one to implement in my situation?

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Mint is simpler, always up to date, and has a lot of plugins aimed at blogs and personal sites. Google Analytics is more complicated and takes a little time to understand, is updated daily, and has more features for larger sites such as marketing, e-commerce and such.

On my own sites I started with Mint, used both of them for a while, but now I'm pretty happy with just Google Analytics.

Marc Charbonneau
what was the deciding factor which moved you to GA completely ?
Vikram
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For every website I work on I only use Google Analytics. My main reasons:

  • free -- for unlimited sites and hits
  • no ads
  • I don't find it hard to use and my clients haven't found it hard either (most figure it out within minutes)
  • it has an API, so if you want more, you can add your own stats or even incorporate into the site
  • for ecommerce, the extra tracking for ecommerce is great
  • there are theories that it might even help your Google ranking (as they gain extra data about your site)
  • a lot of people use it, so often the JS is cached
  • easy to setup (I don't know about mint, but GA is a few lines of JS)
  • connects to adsense so the stats can be tracked together (I don't know if others support this)

... and more.

Darryl Hein
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Why have you opted for these two possible options in particular? There are a number of good packages out there, many of which are free and offer excellent services that may provide compelling advantages over the "default" choice, Google.

Have a look at this ReadWriteWeb post that compares 10 free analytics tools for starters.

I use Clicky on my site and find it to be an excellent alternative to GA.

Phil.Wheeler
Clicky looks good, just to bad you have choose between ads and paying :(
Darryl Hein
The ads aren't really that imposing - just two small banners at the top of the page. Given that you're more concerned with the actual metrics and trend charts, you tend not to notice them at all for focussing on the data.
Phil.Wheeler