Webtrends alternative

[DutchNL]

Have been using Webtrends for a while now and i am getting tired and sick of the page view limits and the high costs.

Are there any alternatives to Webtrends that offer LOG analysis and roughly the same functinalities within Webtrends?

Thanks in advance!

[pmkpmk]

I am so sick at them. They never got back to me regarding my email, but the external contractor messaged me to whom they passed my request. He virtually grinned offering his services and trainings again. I'm trying the SDC approach mentioned above, and that's their last chance. I liked the tool to track the bots too, but if using SDC is the way to keep the pageview limit low...

And STILL I think the system is flawed, and they never replied to my direct question.

[pmkpmk]

Seems SDC is only available for Windows servers. Can anyone confirm? Strikes me as odd since the vast majority of webservers is running on *nix.

[pmkpmk]

OK, got confused by the documentation. SDC runs in fact on Windows (which still strikes me as odd), but can get called/accessed from any other webserver.

In German, we say: Why making it easy if you can have it complicated?

[McElvoy]

Because designing it for one particular operating system allows them to make it fast and efficient and inexpensive without double-teaming their developers, whereas porting it or redesigning it for other operating systems will just drive up the cost? And if it runs within anybody's operating system envelope, who cares?

[pmkpmk]

Current Netcraft survey shows 60% for Apache and 31% for Microsoft - I think it should be possible to create an OS-independent version for those two webservers, and violá, you cover 91% of all servers.

Just adds into the overall picture I get from Webtrends lately. And as I said before - I'm Webtrends customer since many, many years...

[IanTurner]

If a medium-powered machine can run WebTrends pretty well, and mylittlecompany.com which has 1,000 visits a day and fortune500company.com which has 1,000 visits a minute can both process their loads equally well on that medium-quality machine ... should they be paying the same thing for a WebTrends license?

Possibly not - but on the other hand why should a forum owner with 1,000 page views per minute and earnings of $0.001 per page view pay the same as an major online store with a 1,000 page views per minute and eanings of $0.05 per page view.

[McElvoy]

Good example. But WebTrends already has a "baby" version that would be good for that low-revenue client --- it's missing the e-commerce and other ROI features and just sticks with traffic analysis, at a fraction of the price. It's still page-view based, though.

Hmm, licensing fees based on a percentage of revenue. I don't want to continue rumors that are already out there, but think about it.

[edited by: McElvoy at 2:00 pm (utc) on Dec. 7, 2006]

[pmkpmk]

I think I own that "baby" version (WebTrends Small Business 8) and still it cost me an arm and a leg.

[McElvoy]

I can't argue with that! "Arm and a leg" is an individual thing.