Cli.gs allows you to create multiple short URLs linking to the same page. Pretty handy, right? But when you combine this feature with the ability to track hits coming from those links, then you have a great way of tracking your own online campaign.

For example, you can create three short URLs for your article and place one link on Digg, another on Delicious, and another on DesignFloat. After which, log into your Cli.gs account and view the graphs and track hits coming from each individual site.

Cli.gs is probably going to boom within the next three weeks. It’s a lesson to us all that you don’t need to invent the next new thing. You simple have to improve upon what already exists.

WebsiteGrader.com allows you to enter your website, along with other similar websites, to compare each to the other. It takes into account things like Google page rank, Alexa rank, number of Diggs your articles have, delicious bookmarks, and more social and blog stats.

If you have a website that you want to optimize for the social web, WebsiteGrader.com is your first-stop tool.

Piwik installs on your web server and allows you to log in to view the statistics. Easily add users to have either “Viewing” or “Admin” privileges to view or customize your data. Add another website to track with a few clicks of the mouse.

Statistics range from visitor downloads, exit pages, referrers, to amount of time spent on the site, hits per page, actions per visitor, and huge amount of visitor system profiles. Piwik also allows you to export your statistics in multiple formats (XML, PHP, HTML, RSS, Json, CSV) just like Google Analytics. However, Piwik takes it a step further – it allows you to integrate your reports (in the example below, visitors in the past seven days) into any web page rather easily like so:

Another another neat feature of Piwik is the ability to customize your front page using drag-and-drop Ajax interface. Choose from any number of widgets like the Feedburner Subscribers Count widget. If you’re a developer, then you have the extensive developer section and full API list to get your hands dirty.

theDailyApp currently uses both Google Analytics (For the sake of advertisers used to seeing “Google” on each report) and Piwik for my own personal traffic analyzing. It’s truly a great program that will undoubtidly convert a few Googleheads into Piwikheads – it did for me.

Along with having all the standard web analytic features like referring sources and visitor demographics, you cant rack your RSS feeds as well as individual visitor details. For the full list of what this app can do, follow this link.

W3Counter is free if your website receives less than 5,000 page views a day. This make it a great analytics tool for a small blog, church website, or personal portfolio page. If you’re expecting more than 5,000 views a day, you’ll want to upgrade to the PRO account for $9.95 a month or $39.95 for 6 months.

All in all, a great alternative and feature-rich application to let you track your visitors.