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I seek a hosted tracking service that:
1) is webbug-based (no - absolutely no - log files) and hosted
2) can easily handle a LOT of traffic. Say, minimum 100K Pageviews a week without problems and up - even a million or more a day would be nice as things might develop pretty fast.
3) domains should not be not an issue, this will be one domain with a virtually unlimited amount of subdomains. It might as well be more than one domain though.
I need:
a) Stats does not need to be updated by the hour. Daily or perhaps weekly is okay, monthly is a no-go.
b) required stats:
- unique users, pageviews, sessions, session lenght (per hour/day/week)
- path/clickstream analysis of some kind - most popular pages isn't quite enough
- refferer info, eg. incl. SE KW's
- possibility to setup reports, eg. "page1+2+3 = area a" (patterns a plus)
c) Reporting: preferably a web-interface, spreadsheet export is a plus.
Scalability is important!
The packages i've been looking at all seem to have an upper limit around a couple of 100.000 Pageviews at some interval (typically week, or month). That simply will not make it - i'll break their server and (worse) i'll lose data and i really don't like that, so they have to make sure my data is not lost. Also in data collection - at max load, i don't want to lose data because their database engine is too slow to catch all or because their internet connection is a bottleneck.
Log files are out of the question. Period. The servers will serve pages and not do logging. It takes up space and capacity, so it will be turned off completely.
Now, i really hope someone out there can offer me some help on this. Feel free to sticky me if it's about your own products and you can't really promote them in public.
/claus
Removed some cost considerations .. no way i'm over four digits in US$ per year, first digit preferably (much) lower than 5-6, that's basically it.
Like cfx211 said above, 10M+ pageviews a week must be possible to measure without data loss. If it gets heavy 100M+ is not even improbable, so who can do the job? ASP/hosted is okay as long as it does the job, but if you know about "something-in-a-box", i'd like to know as well.
I'll drop the price considerations for the moment if that helps, just point me to the guys and girls who can deliver ;)
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cfx211: yeah, those price levels are crazy, it's much more cheap to develop internally at those rates... weird they have customers at all...i'll sticky you some info on one i've used before. In this thread i'm seeking alternatives - it's not good putting all your eggs in one basket.
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/claus
<bump - for the last time>
I'm now considering up to around US$10K per year and i've got a quote on that and another one that's even cheaper, but i still seek alternatives even if they're more expensive.
Who can handle the job? Any thoughts or pointers?
/claus
