Detailed Traffic Stats for Lenses

Clicky is a web analyzer that works great with any web site, even Squidoo. It was originally targeted towards smaller web sites and blogs because it tracks a high level of detail on every visitor, and these types of sites find this information very interesting. Since then, many additional features have been added to Clicky, such as the customizable dashboard full of Ajax love, and their amazing filtering interface that gives you actionable data on any subset of your visitors. These features, along with many others, make Clicky one of the best web analyzers on the planet.

How does it work?
Simply create an account and then add one or more web sites to that account. For each web site you register, you are given two lines of HTML code to place on your web site (this code is unique for each registered site). It's this code that let's them monitor all of your traffic and give you the juicy details you crave.

To be able to count your visitors, you will need to put some tracking code on your lenses. You will be provided with this code once you've registered your site with a service.

Because Squidoo does not allow Javascript, you will need to use an image based tracker. This means you won't get all the information that the analytics service might usually provide, like traffic sources or keywords, but you can get that kind of info from Squidoo anyway. You'll find the 'Non-Javascript tracking code' at the bottom of the tracking code page.

The best place to put the tracking code is on your Lensmaster profile. It will then automatically appear on all lenses that use the default bio, and thereby collect the stats from them all. You'll have to manually paste this into the bios of lenses that don't.

In the top right corner of the dashboard, there is a drop-down menu for the period you want to see: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, etc. The traffic statistics you see in the dashboard will be for data collected during the selecting period.

By default, the summary is for today, which I find less than useful. Another annoyance (for me) is that the 'Last 7 days' includes Today, which makes the graphs dive at the end. I often choose a 'Custom date range' and shift the period back by one day.

Not that this is really a problem, as Clicky takes into account of current time of day, and shows you the data since the same time yesterday. You can turn the feature on/off in your preferences.