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Up until this point in time I have been using Google Analytics for statistics on my two websites. And although I’ve been somewhat happy with using Analytics, it just doesn’t seem to offer the right ingredients I’m looking for in a website statistics service. I’m also beginning to feel more uneasy about using Google’s products seeing as they have been buying one company after another and stashing even more of my personal information on their servers.

The reason I’m writing this review is to tell you about a great new website statistics service I found recently called pMetrics(aff). This service is run by Performancing, and if you’re in the blogging business you may be familiar with them.

My favorite feature about pMetrics which Google Analytics does not offer is the Spy view. In short, the Spy feature is a live view of any visitors who are currently viewing your website. The time this feature becomes most exciting to use is when your website is featured on the front page of Digg or Slashdot.

One of my biggest gripes about Google Analytics was that it wasn’t able to function with Javascript disabled. Luckily pMetrics is still able to function regardless of a user having Javascript disabled. Now I don’t need to worry about not being able to know when Steve Gibson reads my blog.

My next favorite feature is the Google Maps integration. I’m still scratching my head as to why Google hasn’t implemented their Maps service into Google Analytics. Nonetheless, pMetrics does a wonderful job of integrating Google Maps into their service. This is very helpful for quickly finding out where a majority of your traffic is coming from.

Instead of me explaining every single advantage pMetrics has over Google Analytics, you can check out the pMetrics comparison table.