Last Friday my attention got distracted by an interesting blog post about visualizing web traffic and comparing Visual Sciences with Visitor Ville. Now I must admit that I already am enthousiastic about what I’ve seen at the partner launch event of Visual Sciences last june so I was very interested about what could be better in visualizing web analytics.
Entering the website of Visitor Ville made me think about an computer game, like Sim City. “Could it be any good” I asked myself. I just had to try the software and actually, it took me only a few minutes to add the tracking code to my website footer and the first results from the application were there….. I could see people comming to my site with busses, helicopters. Walking through the streets from house to house….
Was it the jetleg from flying back from Bangkok to Amsterdam? No, it is real. Visitor Ville gives you insight in your web traffic through a village that has houses or flats (your pages), busses (search engines), helicopters (your VIP visitors), persons (your visitors) etc. Its like Second Life meets Web Analitics.
You really should check this out. You can get a free 7 day trial and in case you want more then 7 days, you can use discount code “OMTRENDS” to get 10% off from their already low monthly plans.
