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    HitsLink

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHitLinks is an inexpensive web analytics tools providing page view and unique visitor data to smaller site. Customers tend to be media sites with fairly simple analytics needs. The tools requires that some code be appended to all pages to be tracked, and does not offer any social media tracking.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    HitsLink
    Editions & Modules
    10,000 Page Views
    $19.95
    25,000 Page Views
    $24.95
    50,000 Page Views
    $29.95
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HitsLink
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    HitsLink
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HitsLink
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Net Applications
    If you're looking for a comprehensive, user-friendly web analytics tool, you should definitely consider Hitslink. Before you subscribe to the software, take a test run on their Demo version of the site, as it behaves exactly like the full professional version. The biggest disadvantage is that Google+ registered users' search engine traffic data will be mostly (if not completely) blocked. However, this drawback is rarely a significant hindrance to analyzing your website's traffic, but it is something to be aware of.
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    Pros
    Net Applications
    • View website traffic stats and trends in user-friendly charts, graphs, and lists.
    • Easily parses out website users by search engine, search term, geographic location, referral website, and other specific characteristics.
    • Shows which websites users are coming from, what pages on your site they've landed on and which ones they leave your site from.
    • Gives statistics on how long users are viewing specific pages, which allows for the analyzing of the effectiveness of each webpage on a website.
    • Easily view real-time as well as long-term traffic statistics
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    Cons
    Net Applications
    • Specific information such as search term and geographic location is blocked for users coming into your site through Google who are also signed into a Google+ account, making it increasingly more difficult to analyze trends as more and more people acquire Google+ accounts. This is part of Google's strategy to make companies pay them directly through their Google Analytics software, and it is working against services like Hitslink.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Net Applications
    Hitslink is as useful as it is user-friendly. I haven't seen another website analytics tool as comprehensive and at the same time straightforward as this service. The only downside of Hitslink is Google's blocking of information from its registered Google+ users to the software. As Google+ continues to reign in more of the population, I can see this being a significant problem for Hitslink to overcome. However, there is still a vast majority of search engine users whose actions are visible through Hitslink, and as long as this stays the case, the service will be an invaluable tool for website administrators.
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    Usability
    Net Applications
    The service is incredibly intuitive and very easy to learn. The only drawback is not having a mobile-optimized website to easily view website reports on the go. But on a PC or Mac, Hitslink is as user friendly as it gets. I have yet to see a navigation system on any SaaS website that makes a service that is this comprehensive seem so straight-forward.
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    Return on Investment
    Net Applications
    • Faster lead conversion
    • Improvement of the effectiveness of landing pages (and all webpages on our sites for that matter)
    • Increased employee efficiency by allowing us to make targeted changes to webpages in real time
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