As one of the leading tools for website traffic analysis, Google Analytics provides information about website visitors, traffic trends, search engine keywords, and LOTS more.  Google provides a beautiful and easy-to-use web interface, but we wanted a readily available desktop application that was equally useful.  Enter Polaris by Desktop Reporting.

Polaris is an Adobe AIR application which means that it will run on Windows, Mac, and Linux flawlessly.  They offer a free version which allows viewing one account or an upgraded multi-account version for $15/year.

In the image above, you can see that many of the popular reports are right at your fingertips and delivered in Analytics-like graphical reports.

Also, selecting date ranges is available to focus on specific time periods.  This is very convenient for viewing long-term reports as well as daily web trends.

There is even a great map view to show geographical hotspots for website traffic.

We highly recommend Polaris if you are website statistic freaks like us.  It’s a beautiful interface with tons of information right on your desktop.  You can download it now at http://www.desktop-reporting.com/polaris.html.

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