With Christmas is almost over and New Year is around the corner, one of good ideas for the bloggers or any site owner to do probably is to check the site’s traffic; the number of visitors that visit the site, the ranking as well as how the site perform when compare to the previous fiscal year.

To monitor and analyze the Web traffic of your site, although you can find many of the free analytics programs on the Web, and yet there’s a new player called Teqpad who want to gain some market share from the existing pool.

Teqpad, powered by Calteq v1.0, i.e. its own proprietary algorithm and is dubbed as the only online analytical tool that gives you Web rank and link rank in a single click. Basically, Teqpad analytics uses calteq v1.0 to extract and calculate data from various freely available resources mainly Google Analytics in order to track the Web traffic of a site. For any URL you enter in, Teqpad calculates the amount of traffic that the site has received in a daily basis and chart it according to the metrics such as traffic metrics, site value metrics, and etc.

Personally, I’m not a fan of the Web traffic tracking services as there are some criticism that most of the established free analytics services can’t provide accurate results. Can the Teqpad, with its internal ranking system able to do it better? Maybe, or maybe not.

Currently in private beta, StatsMix is a new Web-based analytics that count the page views of your multiple sites so that you can understand better the user behavior of all of your sites in a single chart view. Although there is no shortage of the Web-based analytics software appeared on the Web, but StatsMix offers the ability to track stats relating to traffic measuring, blog traffic and RSS subscribers. And the support is includes the popular Google Analytics and FeedBurner, so it will save you from the hassle to log in from one analytics to another analytics for the insights into how the Web traffic spread across the Web.

At first glance, StatsMix is an noteworthy alternative to many Web-based analytics package featuring daily traffic reporting. It provides daily report via email, measures the popularity of your tweets or feeds that currently Twitter and FriendFeed that didn’t offer, and a dashboard built-in so you get to know how your sites stack up against the competitors. For instance, StatsMix provides report on what cause your sites go up or down, in other words, the relative popularity of your sites and apparently based on the number of your sites mentioned on the Web.

Want to know how the people of some nations are feeling every day? FrowningSmile is now attempting to tell you, with its own unique automated human happiness measurement system.

Clearly, from the visual representations of the “Country to Country Happiness,” FrowningSmile is analyzing the tweets and the blog posts in order to determine the collective mood of the tweeters and bloggers as a whole. Maybe these group of users can’t really represent whether a whole population of a country is happy or sad in the other end, but it would be fascinating to get more insight into how tweeters are feeling, in part to understand why they tweet, or why bloggers are writing blogs.

FrowningSmile offers insight into the basic stats of “Happier” or “Sad” in certain countries with the inclusion of emoticons and tone analysis on the chart. Unfortunately, the stats is not real-time, and with a very narrow focus on tweets or words appeared on the blogs. Nonetheless, it can be used as a complimentary tool to some of the existing analytics tools and packages on the Web.

Due to the fact that most of the Web masters who run and maintain Web sites would like to find out the real visual representations of where their sites’ visitors came from, and how their sites stand in the search engine ratings and results, I happen to think that the Web-based analytic sites are serving a vital role in evaluating the performance of a Web site.

In fact, it is true that there is no shortage of Web-based analytic sites that can give you a real-time stats (statistics) reporting across the Web. And the other day I did came across a new one called pageboss, which provides a visual stats tracking service relating to a site’s ownership, where the site is currently hosted at, in addition to the tracking of some key metrics such as Google PageRank, backlinks, Web traffic rankings and etc.

Pageboss, at my first glance, its service is very much similar to another free stats tracking service that I profiled in this blog called Web Valuer. Though it did not provide an estimated monetary value of a site based on the figure of the important data points, but it can feature a real-time visual overlay of your site’s overall ranking.

After you typing in your site’s URL name, pageboss will start to track the traffic, inbound link, ranking, and some important data points via some analytic vendors or search engines one by one in a one-page layout format. Your site’s publicly available stats data from some of the big name giants such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft’s Live Search, Alexa, Quantcast are all to be visible onto the result page. It’s good that with all this data, you’ll grasp a simple visual view of your site’s performance when compare to other sites. However, the downside is, if you find that your site’s overall ranking, inbound link, or traffic is low, you might get disappointed and most likely fail to show the expected return of the efforts that you put into the site.