I recently installed a new website analytics tool that was just recently released to the public, BLVD Status. After using it for the last couple days I can say it pretty much rocks the socks off anything else I’ve been using to track traffic. I currently use Clicky, Ice Rocket, Feedburner and MyBlogLog to gather information on traffic for my sites. They all typically did a couple things well, but always had some aspect of that they didn’t do that would necessitate another tool to gather that data. This service has pretty much made all of them obsolete.

BLVD Status put the whole stat tracking package together. You can track all the stuff you would expect, like recent visitors, referrers, search keywords and outgoing links. Where it goes above and beyond is with the ability to track your RSS feeds, tell you how many subscribers you have and how many people are currently on your site. The search keywords is what really blew me away. It tells you where in the Google ranking your result is, which is pretty awesome.

There is an in-depth mode that allows you to delve deeper into the stats, finding where a particular user is from and how long they spent on the site in their visit. You’ll notice there at the bottom they even include tips to tell you how this data relates to the overall picture of your site. For a stats junky like myself this website is amazing.

Update Jul 18/08 This article got Stumble Upon-ed yesterday, so hi to any Stumblers finding the site for the first time. I wanted to update this article a bit to address something that only really became apparent to me after seeing a traffic influx from SU. There is no big picture outlook with BLVD Status. It took me a bit of looking at the stats before I noticed I had received a spike in my traffic. This was always something I liked about IceRocket. When you hit the first page of stats it shows you a graph of the previous week for hits and visits. Looking at that it’s pretty plain to see a traffic influx as there is a big spike in the graph. The foot traffic tab shows this info, but I’d prefer to have the option to see it in graph form. I’ll see about mentioning this to the developers.

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