What's a good way to get 2 basic stats?

New Vistors & Returning visitors?

[Familyman501]

Hi,
I'm completely new to this. I want two accurate stats for my pages:

1. New vistors
2. Returning visitors

That's all! That's basic stats and all I think I need to track my progress. My weblizer stats are deep and detailed but don't give me these two critical figures on a daily basis. What webstats products/services are there that you recommend? Can you suggest a short list? Hopefully low cost solution?

Thanks.

[ronburk]

two accurate stats

You'll need to require either cookies or URL session IDs (or a combination of the two) to get those stats and hope that they'll be accurate. Do you currently require cookies (which is to say, do you actively refuse to display content to clients that can't or won't support cookies)?

[cgrantski]

The cookies have to be persistent cookies, not session cookies.

[Familyman501]

No. I don't demand cookies. ANyone can see my web page.

[edited by: jatar_k at 12:42 am (utc) on Feb. 21, 2006]
[edit reason] no urls thanks [/edit]