The Great search for Analytics services

Re:The Great search for Analytics services by yesimahuman on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:39PM (#3989256)

I've paid for KISSMetrics and really liked it. I know Mixpanel has grown, does anyone have reasons why I should use Mixpanel over KISSMetrics?

Also another good simple analytics service for all the different services you might use is DigMyData (http://digmydata.com/). I'm in a trial right now and finding it pretty useful.

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Re:The Great search for Analytics services by jdg on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:36PM (#3989674)

I pay for and prefer KISSMetrics, and also pay for Mixpanel (a separate project).

KISSMetrics, visually, kicks ass. What sucks about it? It's not real-time. No simple real-time data export/querying API.

The latter is nearly a show stopper. I mean, really? No export/querying API?

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Re:The Great search for Analytics services by jevanish on Friday May 25, 2012 @05:38PM (#4025457)

Just curious, but what makes real time so important to you? What do you do with your data instantly that wouldn't be better served rolling up over a longer period of time to remove any noise-iness and natural variability in your data? I'm genuinely interested in your use case.

Also - KISSmetrics allows for data export to an S3 Amazon bucket in JSON format. http://support.kissmetrics.com/apis/data/data-export-setup

~Disclosure: I work at KISSmetrics.

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Re:The Great search for Analytics services by yesimahuman on Friday May 18, 2012 @09:48AM (#3991768)

I've also heard that KISSMetrics is more about identifying people rather than data points, so it makes retention and user-based events easier, but it seems mixpanel does that too, so I'm not sure.

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