Admit it. No matter how experienced a blogger you are, there’s still this stat whore inside of you. True, if you’ve been getting tons of hits and referrals, you probably don’t have to treat each visitor as if he’s your most important audience. However, even as you move up the blogging food chain, you would also move up in terms of the statistics you look for. Beginning bloggers tend to look for any traffic that could come their way. Intermediate ones try to optimize for the popular search queries and keywords. More advanced ones would try to optimize for monetization (if this is your goal).

Whichever of these you are, I believe Performancing has just the thing for you with pMetrics. The analytics package, licensed from GetClicky, is geared towards bloggers and offers an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that lets you see important information at a glance. I think this is key here—it’s pretty straightforward enough to use from the point of registration up to the actual analyzing of stats.

If you’re already registered with Performancing, you simply have to log in at http://pmetrics.performancing.com with your username and password. Otherwise, registration takes only a few steps. Likewise, registration of your site takes only one step—that is, to enter the basic details like URL, time zone and the like.

After that, pMetrics gives you the code to include on your site’s theme (anywhere within the tags). You have an option of using the javascript version, which gives you more detailed statistics. If your blog software doesn’t support this, then you also have the option of using an image-based stats monitoring, but statistics monitoring is more limited this way.

The stats monitoring panel is straightforward because of the tabbed (or so it seems to me) interface. I like the way I don’t have to dig deep down hierarchical menu interfaces just to see how many visitors my site has had, or what they’ve been searching for, or what they’ve been clicking.

DIGG Spy feature that DIGG introduced, which let people watch what entries other users are DIGGing, entering and commenting on. I noticed, though that there are a few minutes’ lag from user access to the actual record on spy (I tried spying on my stats while accessing the site from a different computer.

pMetrics also lets you monitor your stats via RSS. This lets you get regular updates on your stats through your feed reader of choice.

One gripe, though. Even if pMetrics lets you add multiple sites to your account, I find it difficult to find the “add site” function. Actually, it’s on the account profile page (accessible via pmetrics.performancing.com/user). I hope it would also be located somewhere on the individual site dashboard itself. There is actually a site switcher, where you can switch across the sites you’re monitoring. Perhaps the “add” button or link can be located somewhere near.

pMetrics is free for sites that get less than 1,000 page views per day on average. Otherwise, users can subscribe for $14.99 per year or $2 per month, which is quite affordable, IMHO. pMetrics can satisfy the cravings of that stat whore in you.

But wait, pMetrics will give a free one-year subscription to anyone who reviews the service on their blog (the first 100, actually). And users also get the opportunity to earn from the affiliates program—20% from direct referrals, and 5% from referrals of referrals. It may not be much, but if you have a lot of friends who subscribe, it can more than cover for the subscription fees.

(Thanks to Jangelo’s flickr for the screencaps. Looks like I beat you to a review!)

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