Top 5 iPhone Apps to Keep Tabs on Your Website’s on the Go

Most webmasters understand the importance of staying up to date with the various website statistics available. After all, these stats let you know a vast array of important information that can be crucial to the success of any site.

Trying to track all your stats once meant being tied to your computer, but these days it’s easy to check these things right from your iPhone even when you’re out and about. We like to use these tools at TheApplicants when we’re presenting live at conferences.

There are some seriously good apps available to webmasters that can give you portable access to the information you need. Here are the top picks for apps that can help you track your website stats:

Analytics App

The iPhone Analytics App is designed specifically to bring all the information you usually receive from your Google Analytics account right to your phone when you’re away from your computer.

This app is the perfect tool for any webmaster wanting to track stats and generate reports from data collated from Google Analytics. It allows users to access up to 55 reports with data shown across up to 100 rows.

Users can also customize time ranges and see integrated charts at a glance for many of the metrics shown for Analytics.

Your Google account password and details are kept safe using the iPhone keychain.

Cost: $6.99

ABuzz

ABuzz is a very handy app that allows you to track and monitor social media right from your iPhone. Any business owner should understand the importance of protecting professional reputation, brand and business image, so this app gives business owners a quick, efficient way to keep track of these things at a glance.

Track any number of terms across the Internet and see easily who’s talking about your business or brand. The app also allows you to quickly check Digg posts, Buzz comments, public Facebook comments, or Twitter tweets, and also monitors blogs and forums across the web for what people are saying about your business.

ABuzz also gives you access to competitive intelligence regarding your competitors too. Stay abreast of what people are saying about your competition and use this information to stay a step ahead of the pack.

A very powerful app that is crucial for staying on top of business PR.

Cost: $4.99

Ego

Ego is a very handy iPhone app that lets you check your web statistics in an easy, central location.

The Ego app offers iPhone users support for Ember, Google Analytics, Twitter, Squarespace, Feedburner, Mint, Tumblr and Vimeo. The developers for this app have announced that Flickr will be added to the list of available widgets during the impending release of the next version.

With so many central elements available, this allows users to quickly and easily see at a glance how many visitors your website receives on an hourly, daily or even monthly basis. There’s also information available about updated Twitter follower numbers.

Cost: $1.99

SimpleSense

SimpleSense gives you the ability to check on your Google Adsense stats even while you’re away from your computer. For those webmasters who derive a sizable portion of revenue from the Adsense for Content program, this app is ideal for staying up to date.

Download this app and you’ll be able to access your earnings and other crucial statistics much faster than is available from Google’s own site.

This handy 0.99 cent app will allow you to view the Adsense for Content current payment due, along with any earnings for yesterday, the previous week, or the previous month.

The in-app upgrades for the SimpleSense app costs 0.99 cents each and also allow you to access more in-depth data, including earnings and stats for individual channels, plus statistics for Adsense for Search and AdSense for Feeds.

Cost: $0.99
Plus optional in-app upgrades for $0.99

BAM Analytics Pro

At first glance, BAM Analytics Pro seems like just another app designed to view stats from Google Analytics, but there’s much more to it upon closer inspection. Created by Blast Advanced Media, the BAM Analytics Pro is an affordable app that allows webmasters to view detailed Analytics stats using the iPhone.

BAM Analytics Pro offers the ability to create up to 65 reports that are exportable by way of XML, CSV or email. You’re also not limited to the number of rows of information to search, as this app allows you the option of receiving 100 rows, 200 rows, or viewing “all” results. When you compare this to similar apps of its type, you’ll see this is quite an improvement.

BAM Analytics Pro also works fine to generate reports for users with multiple websites and even multiple accounts. The app also features a comparison for advanced segments and date ranges.

Cost: $1.99

In Closing

When it comes down to it you can buy app after app and always look for a better system. Truth be told, I think it’s more important to master the apps you currently own than buying the latest and greatest on the market.

The more you utilize apps in general, the better and faster you will be able to use them to help you with your tasks.