So here’s a plan. You want to monitor what traffic is coming through your sites, and you want to do it for free. Google Analytics is the obvious choice.
But what if you wanted to go all Web 2.0 and get your site hits, keywords and referrers without having to wade through all your stats? What if you wanted just the essentials wrapped up and delivered in a manageable daily RSS feed?
Well it’s not the future anymore…
PulseRSS is a great little free, hosted service which you tag onto your pages and keeps you posted on the most essential statistics for an unlimited number sites.
It means rather than having to manually check your ‘vitals’ in an overblown interface, you can now be fed them regularly; keeping an eye on your site’s pulse rather than doing a full and time-consuming “please cough, sir” style inspection.
This isn’t a replacement for full featured statistics package, but instead a daily supplement, adding some great functionality which is missing from the big guns’ offerings.