What you’ll learn
- The best affiliate link trackers, tested
- Analytics tools built for affiliate sites
- Google Analytics alternatives for publishers
- Broken-link checkers and Amazon tools
Featured
Best Affiliate Link Trackers (2026): Pick the Right One for the Job"Affiliate link tracker" bundles three different jobs — cloaking and managing links, counting clicks, and tying clicks to earnings. Most tools stop at counting. Here's the honest 2026 field — Pretty Links, ThirstyAffiliates, Lasso, Geni.us, and where Clickolytics fits — sorted by which job you actually have.Best Amazon Affiliate Tools (2026): Great at Placing Links, Blind to What EarnsAAWP, Lasso, SiteStripe, AmaLinks Pro — the best Amazon affiliate tools of 2026 are excellent at displaying products and keeping prices fresh. But none tell you which product actually earned, because Amazon reports per tracking ID only. Here's the honest field, the dead plugins to remove, and how to close the earnings gap.Best Analytics Tools for Affiliate Sites (2026): An Honest Comparison"Affiliate analytics" is really several different tool types — network aggregators, media-buyer trackers, privacy analytics, and first-party on-site trackers. Here's the honest field for 2026, what each actually measures, and how to pick by use case (including where Clickolytics fits, and where it doesn't).Best Broken Link Checkers (2026): The Field, and the One Thing They All MissScreaming Frog, Ahrefs, Dr. Link Check, GSC — the best broken link checkers all catch HTTP 404s well. But for affiliate sites there's a second kind of broken link they can't see: the 200-OK link that earns nothing. Here's the honest field and where affiliate-aware checking fits.Google Analytics Alternatives for Publishers (2026): The Honest ShortlistPlausible, Fathom, Matomo, Clicky — the best GA4 alternatives fix Google Analytics' complexity and consent problems. But for affiliate publishers there's a catch: they're all traffic analytics, and none see a commission. Here's the honest field, what each fixes, and the one gap the whole category leaves.
Frequently asked questions
How do you choose tools for these comparisons?
Hands-on testing against what affiliate publishers actually need — reliable click tracking, revenue attribution, and privacy.
Do you recommend your own tools?
Where they genuinely fit, and we say so openly — the comparisons note where Clickolytics fits and where other tools are stronger.
What's the best analytics tool for affiliates?
The one that reliably captures outbound clicks and revenue without losing data to consent banners — see the analytics comparison.