Some of you may be aware that Performancing.com formerly ran a free statistics service for Bloggers which had become fairly popular. Then without notice they shut it off one day. This angered quite a few people who were vocal about their opinions, many of which stated that they would not be returning to Performancing.
Well, now we’ll find out if that is true or if they have been forgiven, because Performancing has pre-announced that they are bringing back pMetrics . I’ve installed the script on my personal blog and its working just fine.
It provides more information than it did in the past including far more in depth user tracking and even a “spy” mode that shows you real time activity. It also maps users on a Google map which is very interesting.
The one problem I forsee is that it might be difficult for Performancing to convince users to rely solely on this service (or the premium version) since they previously demonstrated a willingness to discontinue it at any time.
Here is the announcement:
Pre-Announcement: pMetrics Re-Launches - Submitted by Ryan Caldwell on April 25, 2007 - 11:06pm
This is the announcement before the announcement. The pMetrics site analytics package has relaunched. Get it now for your blog!
Working in coordination with Sean from Clicky, we have put scalable server infrastructure in place to provide a stable pMetrics site analytics solution to the wider blogging community. Use and enjoy.
A more comprehensive announcement is forthcoming, along with suggestions of what you can expect to see in a pMetrics API for widget development, additional analytic plugin features (AdSense tracking anyone?), public exposure (read: linklove) for successful sites, and more.
Again, this is the announcement before the announcement, but for those of you who have been patient with us, we thought you deserved to know as soon as possible. So now’s the time to get back in the game.