Yes, we all love Google Analytics. However, it does not stop us looking at other good alternatives. W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them. There’s no installation, no configuration, and tracking starts as soon as you copy-and-paste a snippet of code into your website. Here is a list of features you can find on W3Counter, but not on Google Analytics.

Follow Your Visitors
Since W3Counter’s service is truly real-time, you can follow visitors as they browse your website. See who’s online at any time and their entire path from referring source to the page they’re currently viewing. Plus, view detailed activity for visitors that have recently left your site as well.

Visitor Identification
Label your visitors, as easily as installing a plugin on a WordPress blog or adding a few lines of JavaScript to your membership or customer-based website. Your labels will appear in your reports of online and recent visitors, where you can view all the past activity of each member or customer on your website.

Web Stats Widgets
Share your web stats with the world. Embed them in your website or blog with 7 different widgets including visitor maps, top pages, top searches, weekly visit graphs and a live feed of the most recent people on your site. You can even pull up a click overlay of your site without logging in to W3Counter.

Tracking Feedburner Feed Stats
You can track your Feedburner Feed Stats easily with W3Counter. It shows Circulation, Hits and Reach for your Feedburner account by using Feedburner API. It also shows us a beautiful line chart for your RSS Stats as well.

Many small website owners remain on the free plan. However, free accounts are limited to websites receiving under 5,000 daily page views.

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Demo: http://www.w3counter.com/stats/2
License: License Free

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Font Cubes is where you can find the a lot of free PC fonts and free Mac Fonts from the best font artists in the world. You can download any fonts easily by clicking the “Download” button. Registering as a member will allow you to access Font Cubes’s unique font management system. By registering, you could keep track on your favourite fonts by fontmarking them and asside of that, you could also use the system to keep track of font you have used in your project as well. However, the fonts listed in Font Cubes are the font author’s property. Please contact the authors for further consultation regarding the use of the listed fonts for.

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Demo: http://www.fontcubes.com/
License: License Free

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ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker. It generates complementary color schemes based on your inputted color values or randomly. There are three ways to use ColorToy.

1. Enter a RGB value. e.g. 211,21,52 and hit “Submit RGB”. ColorToy 2.0 will then generate your complementary color scheme.
2. Enter a HEX value e.g. #c0ffee and hit “Submit Hex”. ColorToy 2.0 will then generate your complementary color scheme based on your HEX value.
3. Hitting “Random” will generate a random color and associated complementary color scheme. Go on, give it a click.

You can also check out the collection of other useful Color Scheme Generators we have mentioned on WebAppers a while ago.

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Demo: http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/
License: License Free

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Woopra is a web-tracking & analysis tool. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views. Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website. Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website. Here are the main features of Woopra.

Live Tracking
Webmaster will be immediately updated with all the actions taking place on his website. Woopra makes tracking seamless with its inherent live technology.

Rich Interface
Woopra provides an intuitive interface to display complex data sets (such as maps, charts, etc…) , without discarding the balance between design and function, creating elegant data visualizations.

Activity Search
Woopra log shows you all the events on your website in chronological order, offering an outstanding tool to go back in time and identify all the actions that took place.

Instant Messaging
Woopra enables you to engage your visitors by starting a conversation with them; a friendly popup will appear on the web page to establish the chat. Also, Woopra provides your visitors with a special link on the page, to be able to start a conversation.

Notifications
By putting valuable information around real-time data, Woopra provides an on-demand notification component highlight operational data and apply intelligence to make the data actionable and to spot special events.

Developer Tools
For developers and enthusiast users, Woopra provides a full featured API that allows extracting a website’s data into several common web 2.0 formats, making it useful for use within your own application.

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Demo: http://www.woopra.com/
License: License Free

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Jayhan present you the vector dotted world map free for download. It comes with three different dot sizes which is fine, medium and large to cater for different purpose and needs. This dotted world map is based on the world map resource from Deviant Art, and Jayhan overlay a dotted pattern on top and slowly remove the unwanted dots to form the shape of the world. It took Jayhan several days to accomplish this. UK was missing in the map. However, Dotted world map vector V1.1 has now included UK as well.

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Demo: http://www.jay-han.com/2008/01/06/dotted-world-map-vector…
License: License Free

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Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for free. They feel that free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community - photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions. Images on the site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of photographers.

Just sign up for a free membership, log in, and download high-quality, high- resolution free stock photos and free textures. All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects.

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Demo: http://www.freerangestock.com
License: License Free

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Google has introduced Ajax Language API. This new API boasts two functions, language translation and language detection - which cover 13 languages and 29 translation pairs. With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. The language API is designed to be simple and easy to use to translate and detect languages on the fly when offline translations are not available. They plan on adding more exciting capabilities to the AJAX Language API in the future, so stay tuned.

I have been waiting for this Language API from Google Translator for a long long time. Now we are able to translate our web pages, paragraphs or even words into different languages in real time. The Language Detection function comes in very handy as well. How exciting is that!

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Demo: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/
License: License Free

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PS Brushes has a cleaner look to minimize the usless content and give you direct access to almost all Photoshop Brushes around the internet. All the photoshop brushes are categorized into the following categories, Abstract, Animals, Around the House, Drawings, Fractals, Grunge, Hearts, Humans, Landscapes, Music, Oriental, Outer Space, Patterns, Photos & Frames, Plants, Religious, Scratches, Shapes, Street & Misc Signs, Structural, Text & Type and War Brushes.

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Demo: http://www.psbrushes.net
License: License Free

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DesignPacks.com offer free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. They’ve created dozens of collections based on a variety of themes. Every DesignPack can be downloaded as a single ZIP file. File sizes vary between 3-5MB. You can browse the Image Catalog to see what’s available.

Although DesignPacks.com mentioned that there will be new sets added monthly, it seems like they have stopped updating the site since 2005.

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Demo: http://www.designpacks.com
License: License Free

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IzzyMenu.com let us creating professional looking CSS menus for your Website easily. You can create your menu with drop down DHTML sub-menu online, without writing a single line of code. And more importantly, it is free. There are many different menu styles for you to choose from. You can customize the font, background, border, padding, margin, link, hover state and etc… anything you can imagine. And after all, you can download the menu and integrate into your website easily.

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Demo: http://www.izzymenu.com/
License: License Free

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