Google Analytics is terrible, alternatives?

[Lightguy1]

I just can not get GA to accurately report. It seems if there is ever more than 1 goal, it will always just combine the goal data. The conversions for adwords will never work properly.

Is anyone else using other analytic programs? I have looked into a few, webtrends, crazy egg, etc....

I really would like to monitor my adwords and my google base.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[cgrantski]

GA's goals are crude in that way, yes. It's one of the many reasons I don't like to use it.

Lots of programs will give you the goal handling you want, for a price. Omniture and WebTrends are the two main ones. Of the two, you might be able to get a good deal on WebTrends' cost from somebody who will share a license and has the software on their own server. Omniture doesn't have that kind of thing available, so you'd just have to try to get a discount from them.

[Lightguy1]

Are there any other free programs out there like GA?

[arieng]

I've never had any problems tracking my AdWords performance in GA. I'm e-commerce, so I'm using the e-comm. conversion tracking primarily, not Goals.

In a pinch, you could always set up multiple profiles for the same site with different filters. This would allow you to keep your data seperate for different goals.

[cgrantski]

Oh okay, you want free. There's GA (arieng's suggestion would work), Yahoo IndexTools, Microsoft Analytics, to name the recent ones. Each one works best with its own sponsored search program.