Tracking Visitors with Mint

I already know what you're thinking. Why wouldn't I just use Google analytics for free or AwStats? You should use Google analytics, and AwStats is a nice log analyzer as well, but you should also have some comparison data to Google analytics. Not only does Mint provide you with additional stats, it can also be a bit more reliable than Google analytics mainly because the script executes at the top of the page and calls your own server. It's very possible that you could be missing out on some stats because the Google analytics code was never executed. It does happen.

Another important advantage to Mint is that you see data in realtime. No 24 hour delay. This can be huge for testing that new link placement or being able to watch if the email campaign you're sending is getting users to your new product. Being able to see data in realtime can give you the ability to react quickly to your users. Mint also ships with a clean interface and the ability to add more functionality through what the Mint folks call Peppers. Think of Peppers as modules or extensions. Keep in mind when adding these Peppers you are adding javascript to your page and also raising the chances of having a bug. So just install what you need and always test in your development environment first. You knew that though.

Happy tracking!
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