Userfly offers services which let webmasters see visitor behavior in the real environment. Once the code is installed on the site (which takes about 2-3 minutes to do) it records everything your visitors are doing during the time they are on the site.

These sessions are saved in your account on Userfly.com. Based on the data recorded earlier, userfly recreates the entire session graphically whenever you want to see them.

The following screenshot shows how a typical panel looks like. (click on the image to enlarge it)

I’ve recorded one of the sessions from Userfly, take a look at what it looks like in the video below.

Users can register with Userfly and record up to 10 free sessions. If you like the service you have to upgrade to a paid account which starts at $10 a month for 100 recorded sessions up to $200 for 10000 sessions a month.

Now this service might look like it is the best and this is exactly what the webmasters needed to make their sites better, to some extent that is true but I think this is just half the service UserFly is offering the other half is still missing.

The missing part of the service is Analytics. Userfly collects immense data based on which it re-creates real-time-like environment for webmasters to see the visitor behavior. Now I can see 5, 10, even 20 videos but how will I convert the information on these videos into hard numbers, I cannot!

Each of us have our own interpretation of what we see in the video so it is best to process the existing data and come show some numbers which make more sense.

For example, the service can suggest best ad placements on the site by analyzing the cursor movements over a period of time.

I think watching what a user is doing is an excellent idea but I just can’t imagine watching 100 sessions a month or may be more to know how the site should change and besides analytics is one of the best ways to understand user behavior as it put things in perspective.

All that said, UserFly is a brilliant service and it is certainly a MUST-TRY service for all webmasters.

Click here to visit UserFly

Credits: @rsameer

Google Analytics (abbreviated GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew.

The new feature include:

1. Adsense inside Google Analytics which mean better monitoring of what/which page/post is generating how much revenue and so on.
2. A better way of segmenting your blog reader
3. Better ways of handling and creating reports.
4. The API of the new Analytics

And did I miss that it’ll also introduce to it’s users the funky Google Analytics motion chart. You can check the following video to check the motion chart in action.

We have are keenly awaiting the new release and would be giving you a detail post on the same once we get our hands on it.

Tags: google analytics, google analytics and google adsense. analytics and adse, Google analytics suite, motion chart, new features google analytics, Web Analytics
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Compete just released July’s web statistics which show top sites based on the search criteria. Compete is a web analytics or a web tracking company. Which records online activities of over 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have granted them access to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.

We decided to take a look at the data to see where did online users spend most of their time in July 2008 and we found interesting trends. Some very crisp and clear and some which look good but mean something else or do they?

Biggest losers were MySpace, Yahoo and Live.com which noticed a drop of 24%, 11% and 8% respectively on "Total Time Spent" metrics. Top gainers were Facebook with 17% increase, Youtube with 9% and Pogo 6%.

Now here is something interesting.. Google witnessed an increase of 3% in total time spent on the site by users, while the number is colored Green which means its positive, I wonder if its really good for Google to see "Total Time Spent" by users go up. Google is a search engine and the soon the users navigate away from the site the better it is because it means that users actually found something they were looking for.

An increase in Total Time Spent on Google could actually mean that users spent some time on Google searching for the desired result. What do you think?

Here goes the list of top 10 sites in "Total Time Spent" metric for July 2008.