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Web and interface designers often need to strike a balance between visual appeal and ease of use. But eye tracking systems are bit too expensive for your average designer. Clixpy is a webapp that lets you track exactly how your visitors interact on your website. Just insert a snippet of code and setup an account to start tracking mouse movements and clicks. The replay is super smooth and works flawlessly. Best of all, it’s free.

Clicky is a powerful real time web analytics tool. It has the most comprehensive feature set of any major analytics tool as well as granular tracking settings, with specific details for individual visitors. It might be time to switch out Google Analytics.

Next Big Sound is a slick analytics tool for the music industry that provides user interaction data for hundreds of thousands of music artists.

Apigee is a free, self service API management with analytics and other tools for your apps and backend protection.

Quantcast aggregates visitor data for hundreds of thousands of websites. It’s perfect for marketers or webmasters.

Peerset is a fantastic demographic research tool. Instead of just searching for websites like traditional research tools, Peerset allows you to research the interests and attitudes of people based on terms you enter.

HootSuite is a full featured Twitter management client that’s free. It packs useful tools like brand monitoring, personalized view, tweet scheduling, statistics, social network integration, an iPhone app and more.

If your budget is tight, there’s no need to drop money on pricey clickheat maps like CrazyEgg. ClickHeat is a free click heatmap alternative to CrazyEgg.