Any good statistics extentions for Joomla/Community Builder?

[camaroboy]

I am looking for a statistics module in that will show relevant site stats, such as visitors per day/month/year, CB field info, etc. I would like to post these in the advertising section of the website to give potential advertisers and idea of my site traffic, member geographical info, etc. Any ideas? Thanks!

[rogerd]

Hmmm, anyone have an idea on this?

[willybfriendly]

I hae read reviews on a couple of them. Users are happy. Hosts are not.

If you do some poking around you will discover that Joom stats packages build gigantic databases in a very short time, even on relatively small sites. Additionally, there are so many calls to the DB that they can bring servers to their knees, particularly in a shared hosting environment.

The only people that I see that are pushing Joom stats packages are the ones writing them.

As is often the case, the long road is the better one. Learn to use the raw logs, or use a log based stats package like awstats.

[lammert]

I second willybfriendly here.

In-software stats can be a real performance killer. If log-parsing statistics packages like awstats do not give you the information you want, you could sign up for Google Analytics. It gives great information about geographical location of users, pages they visit etc, but it takes some time to learn to use it. Implementation is simple, just a small piece of javascript code in the footer of each page.

[camaroboy]

I have Google Analytics set up for all my sites including this one. What I want isnt stats that I can see...but rather stats that I can post on my website for advertisers and users to see. Is there any way to put Google Analytics on my website; like show hits per day, month, year, etc?

[lammert]

No, not that I know of, but you can make a few screenshots and save them as image files once a week or so and put these images on your site.