Spice up web analytics with some Basil

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Spice up web analytics with some Basil

by Chris Gilmer Mar 8th 2007

Just when you thought the world of web analytics was a little bland, Basil arrives to spice things up a bit.

Basil takes out the pages of raw web traffic data that we once had to sift through and analyze, and does all the hard work for us. They provide easy to use clean interface design [reminding us of Mint] to make it easier for figuring out what the popular pages of your website are, and what search engine delivers the most traffic to your site.

Basil makes it easy to track the pages and data you want to check out by proving a dashboard of four major topic areas, visitors, pages, referrers, and search engines. Data is compiled in easy to read reports, you can check out a demo on the Basil website.

Basil web analytics is available for $25 U.S. which allows for installing the software on one domain.

[via eHub]

Tags: basil, data, monitor, search, search engine, SearchEngine, tracking, traffic, web, web analytics, WebAnalytics

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jordan Running said 4:09PM on 3-08-2007

First Mint, now Basil. What's next--Thyme? Cumin?

basil support said 7:34PM on 3-08-2007

Jordan,

We thought users would see the sense of humour there and many people like the quirkiness.

basil team

gregg smith said 4:18PM on 3-11-2007

This software is great. Ive been running it now for a few days and kind believe i've lived without this type of functionality. The dashboard is the coolest feature ever and looking at these guys road map there are alot of cool features to come.

Bring on version 1.2 ;-)

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