In a perfect example of, ‘that’s so obvious, why didn’t I think of that’, RedRouble have released a quick and dirty stats package available through RSS.
Pulse is a hosted web app that gives you the basic of statistics for your website available as a RSS feed or through their site. Simply sign up and add the JavaScript to the footer of your site’s (x)html to start tracking visits, incoming links and search keywords. Then log in and subscribe to the RSS feed using your favourite reader and check out the stats while reading the headlines and drinking your morning coffee.
With the data available in xml format too, I am just waiting for someone to develop a WordPress plugin. Stats available in your dashboard would be very handy.
Best of all though….. its FREE and with more features to come it can only become more useful.
[...] A feature that was lacking though, something that PulseRSS has made available, is web stats through RSS; I covered this briefly here but I for one am hoping they have made this valuable feature available. It seem Google has learnt from the original massive demand for Analytics when originally released though and will be rolling Analytics ‘2.0′ out over the next month to everyone. So if you haven’t had the upgrade yet, in the mean time, check out the feature tour for more information. [...]