Stats Counter

[wowy]

What do you look for in a stats counter?

- What features are a must?
- What features are good to have?
- What would be the determining factor of you using a certain stat service?

[steelegbr]

Features I must have - browsers, screen resoultion, OS, referers

Features good to have - How many clients have javascript, pages visited by user

Determining factor - Cost!

[wowy]

We are in the process of developing a free stats service. We want to make it the most robustly featured free stats program available. I'm sinking mucho denaro into promotion and advertising for this...check the suggestions coming. We already have most of what you posted going into it. We just want to hear it from the potential end users first.

[kodaks]

I would only use a stat counter, if they didn't have intrusive ads. I would only accept text links as an ad. Good luck with your counter service!

[wowy]

There will be no ads and you could also have it invisible. How does that sound?

[kodaks]

Thats great! I am sure your service will be a hit if you offer an invisible counter.

[wowy]

Hope so...any other suggestions are welcome.

[peter andreas]

The ability to track differant pages or groups of pages within the main site so you could eg see how the blue widget section was performing in detail as well as overview of the whole site.Just a thought.

[Pibs]

I currently use 'Webalyser' as it comes free from my hosting company.

It's OK, sort of, but the ability to see which pages people have viewed is possible, in a fashion, but awkward.

Something like a percentage of surfers who viewed 2 or more pages, 3 or more pages etc would be handy, especially if linked up with WHICH pages.

Also something I'd love, the abililty to filter results. I have zero interest in how many times a basic jpeg such as the site's logo has been downloaded. I AM interested in how many .pdf files have been downloaded or how many html pages etc.

Something that recognises and lists seperately the search engine spiders would be great too. If I put up a new page then see in a week 250 visitors, that's nice but how many were spiders?

My site gets around 4000 visitors a month but for all I know 3000 or them could be spider visits!

To me the whole point of stats is to see what PEOPLE are DOING. Provide me that and I'll love you forever.