A little over a month ago, I installed Performancing Metrics with the expectation that it would give me “an unrivaled per visitor level of detail.”

In the same post, I also mentioned a fact from their help page:

Performancing Metrics is available for FREE to all users with sites that average less than 1,000 page views per day, which is the vast majority of blogs and web sites out there.

In the same post, I asked two questions: First, does Performancing Metrics live up to its claim? Second, is it really free?

We’ve already answered the second question - it’s free. That is, as long as you don’t get too much traffic on your blog.

The first question, on the other hand, I didn’t answer.

I’m answering it now.

Damn right, it does!

Performancing Metrics tells me pretty much everything I want to know about my readers. I mentioned before:

I want to be able to track any given visitor’s movement on my blog. Say, for example, a visitor visits 37 different pages, I’d like to know which 37 pages those are. I don’t want just the entry and exit pages - I want every page. This is supposed to give me that.

It hasn’t disappointed. I can tell what path a visitor takes from the moment they land on my site, to the pages they visit, to the link they took to exit. Yes, even the last link they clicked - more on that later.

It doesn’t stop there though.

In my opinion, the way pMetrics presents information to is so simple it’s ingenious. I use both SiteMeter and Google Analytics on my blog, but I check pMetrics more than either one of them. The reason: pMetrics displays related information (i.e. referring page, IP, browser, number of pages visited, etc.) all on the same page. You don’t have to keep jumping between tabs or windows.

Another thing I love is the feature they’ve dubbed “Spy.” Put simply, “Spy” is a real-time stat tracker. It lets you watch as visitors come to your site, look around, and leave. Granted, this isn’t really that useful for people who don’t have a lot of traffic, but it is pretty cool. One thing some of you might like to do though is this: head over to the Spy tab just before you submit one of your links to Digg or some other social bookmarking site.

Yet another feature of pMetrics I love is the affiliate program. How does it work? This page says it best:

Our affiliate program is designed to reward you for sharing Performancing Metrics with the world. You will earn 20% of every payment made to us by any user who signs up through your affiliate link and eventually becomes a paying premium member. Additionally, there is a second tier commission of 5%, which means you will get 5% of any payment made to us by your referal’s referals.

Now the absolute best part, at least for now, is that you can get a a year of premium pMetrics for free. The first 100 to submit a review for pMetrics will receive pMetrics premium free for 12 months. This post, obviously, is my review. Where’s yours?

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