Likelihood to Recommend If you're looking for a comprehensive, user-friendly web analytics tool, you should definitely consider Hitslink. Before you subscribe to the software, take a test run on their Demo version of the site, as it behaves exactly like the full professional version. The biggest disadvantage is that Google+ registered users' search engine traffic data will be mostly (if not completely) blocked. However, this drawback is rarely a significant hindrance to analyzing your website's traffic, but it is something to be aware of.
Read full review ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
Read full review Pros View website traffic stats and trends in user-friendly charts, graphs, and lists. Easily parses out website users by search engine, search term, geographic location, referral website, and other specific characteristics. Shows which websites users are coming from, what pages on your site they've landed on and which ones they leave your site from. Gives statistics on how long users are viewing specific pages, which allows for the analyzing of the effectiveness of each webpage on a website. Easily view real-time as well as long-term traffic statistics Read full review The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive. All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database. The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation. Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume. Read full review Cons Specific information such as search term and geographic location is blocked for users coming into your site through Google who are also signed into a Google+ account, making it increasingly more difficult to analyze trends as more and more people acquire Google+ accounts. This is part of Google's strategy to make companies pay them directly through their Google Analytics software, and it is working against services like Hitslink. Read full review Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights. Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Hitslink is as useful as it is user-friendly. I haven't seen another website analytics tool as comprehensive and at the same time straightforward as this service. The only downside of Hitslink is Google's blocking of information from its registered Google+ users to the software. As Google+ continues to reign in more of the population, I can see this being a significant problem for Hitslink to overcome. However, there is still a vast majority of search engine users whose actions are visible through Hitslink, and as long as this stays the case, the service will be an invaluable tool for website administrators.
Read full review ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
Read full review Usability The service is incredibly intuitive and very easy to learn. The only drawback is not having a mobile-optimized website to easily view website reports on the go. But on a PC or Mac, Hitslink is as user friendly as it gets. I have yet to see a navigation system on any SaaS website that makes a service that is this comprehensive seem so straight-forward.
Read full review It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
Read full review Reliability and Availability I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
Read full review Performance Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
Read full review Support Rating Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
Barry Mann Freelance Web Analytics, Insight and Optimisation
Read full review In-Person Training Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
Read full review Online Training It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
Read full review Implementation Rating Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
Read full review Scalability I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
Read full review Return on Investment Faster lead conversion Improvement of the effectiveness of landing pages (and all webpages on our sites for that matter) Increased employee efficiency by allowing us to make targeted changes to webpages in real time Read full review ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks. Read full review ScreenShots