I need a good Webstats program

[alik]

Hi,

I am currently using Webalizer 2.1 but I don't like it at all.

I need something that shows me, for instance, last 50 visitors, country of origin, uniques, a statistic of the most visited pages, the "route" that users take, keywords,
referrers...

After all, nothing special. Just can't stand WebAlizer.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

[hazardtomyself]

I have found Live Stats to give me the stats I need to really judge the effectiveness of a site. I have used Live Stats 6.0 and above.

[alik]

I have read about it and sounds good... but man, kind of costy: $895 (1 virtual server ) :-(

[sem4u]

I would recommend WebTrends. However, I have also been evaluating SurfStats recently.

[bufferzone]

Webtrends is used by many and has a lot of funktionality. My only problem is finding out what combination to buy.

[edited by: bufferzone at 12:25 pm (utc) on Mar. 25, 2004]

[creative craig]

awstats or urchin.

[tafkar]

I am using awstats myself and I am quite pleased with it. But for a starter I wouldn't recommend it. Maybe 123LogAnalyser might be more helpful in that case.

[creative craig]

I think that awstats is perfect for any level of webmaster, there is no such thing as to much information when it comes to stats for your site :)

[alik]

Thanks a lot, guys. I have checked out AWStats and it looks pretty nice... but I am still in the need of a sort of PATH ANALYSIS software. AWStats lacks of it :(

[alik]

With 'Path Analysis' I mean 'Clickstream'; or how visitors move through my site.

[BigFish]

Add to that the perl requirements on Awstats, and I don't think it is a very good beginner's package...

[karmov]

I would agree that awstats is not neccessarily designed for the beginner (though if a beginner is willing to put some time and effort in they could figure it out eventually). But that's from an install and usage standpoint. The stats it generates are just super for any level, though it is lacking path analysis as previously mentioned.

[Fulton]

I would give the eiq professional suite a try, it's got some new features for parameter analysis as well as path analysis.

[Friend]

I looked into a several webstats progs probably a year ago. The best combo of price and features that I found was Weblog Expert. I've been satisfied using it since. It runs $75 so it isn't super cheap, but its less expensive than some of the others out there.

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[Herath]

Look at sawmill. It's impressive.

[jpell]

Statcounter shows the navigational path plus all of the other stuff you were looking for. Also, they're free. I use them. The only drawback is they don't log spiders, just real surfers.
Jpell

[Robsp]

I use mach5 analyzer. It's fast, cheap and does track paths spiders etc. Highly recommended.

[sem4u]

I have just looked at Mach 5. Some nice graphical path analysis on there, which would be very useful to me :)

[mat]

Another vote for Mach5. Wish I could turn off the bloody DNS lookup though.

[alik]

Mach5 is the same as FastStats Analyzer 4?

[woop01]

The best combo of price and features that I found was Weblog Expert. I've been satisfied using it since. It runs $75 so it isn't super cheap, but its less expensive than some of the others out there.

I agree. Considering the price of other analyzers, it's well worth it.

[europeforvisitors]

I use Mach5's FastStats Gold, and I recommend it highly. It's quick, the interface is user-friendly and easy on the eyes, it has loads of information, and it's stable. I wish it had had a report page for robots, though--I can find them on the visiting domains page, but that isn't as convenient as the robots/crawlers page in Sawmill.

[Robsp]

Mach5 is the same as FastStats Analyzer 4?

Yes it is the same product. I think they renamed it but it is still very fast :)

[alik]

Hey people, one question, probably stupid: usually when do you get a license, can you use it in as many sites as you want (with several log files) or you should be purchasing it each time?

What I have right now is three unrelated sites under the same hosting account.

[karmov]

The license agreement should specify that. If not, I'm sure if you contact the vendor they'll fill you in :)