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I am using SurfStats to analyze my web visitors, but I'm up for better suggestions. With SurfStats, I can't see the originating ISP of my visitors, only the search engine used. Not saying that info isn't valuable.
For the life of me, I can't recall the software I used to use, which did provide the originating ISP, and I found that very useful for my particular business.
Thanks for input.
AXS Visitor Tracking System will do it. However, it gets sluggish when sites start reaching 10K average page views per day.
The referring URL output with search phrase, approximate SERP rank, and a link to the specific SERP page that was hit is outstanding and addicting, and I miss it.
Free Stats
Hosted on your server
AXS- lives on your server so it will use system resources. Free (Although Zoltan would no doubt appreciate your donation)
ExtremeTracker, Hitbox- Hosted Stats
These provide great stats like unique visitors, search engine referrers, search terms, etc.
On the downside, your stats are open for anyone to see, and you may have to run some kind of banner or button banner on your page.
Paid Stats
Extreme tracker Pro
$5/month for limited traffic. It's a decent price for hosted analysis for a sleepy website.
Hitbox Pro
Around $35/month. Provides great analytics, configurable reports can be downloaded as a spreadsheet or word file. I'd recommend this to a professional enterprise or for those who need a reasonably deep level of analysis.
Opentracker.net
Around $17/month. Provides great analytics for more pageviews than Hitbox Pro. I don't believe you can download reports although you can print them. Here's a nice trick: You can also view people who are on your site in real-time. Interface not as slick as Hitbox Pro either, but you sure get a lot for the money.
Mach V Log Analyzer
This is real cool. At $99 for their regular version, this is affordable and powerful software. Great stuff.
These are programs I've had experience with that I have good things to say about. I haven't used everything there is out there, so maybe other folks have something good to say about another program I haven't mentioned.
[edited by: martinibuster at 11:09 pm (utc) on Sep. 15, 2003]
Kris
It does what you seek, and with nice, pretty graphs and charts too. :)
AXS- lives on your server so it will use system resources.
Exactly, have to dump it when a site matures; two 20MB log files are two too many. Nonetheless, a great tool for monitoring keyphrase & competitor positioning on new, moving sites.
BTW, JanetKP, in the latest vers. of SurfStats, clicking on the "Visitors" tab, then in the left frame choosing "Top Visitor Organizations" displays ISPs.
NS
I'm using them, not working for them.
Bill
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[edited by: Marcia at 6:56 pm (utc) on Sep. 18, 2003]
[edit reason] No self-promo, please. [/edit]
do you happen to know where they pull there figures from. (Is it Alexa in disguise)
Doubt that. Alexa gives MUCH better guestimate on where you are, provided you use it right, but this "intelligence" figures don't seem to have any real data behind them. (Granted a single trial might not be telling, but with such a discrepancy at the very first attempt I ain't going to use it if there's a single dime involved)
Oh, and by the way, Pauly and Dave: Promotional url drops are against the WW TOS.
[edited by: Woz at 1:39 pm (utc) on Dec. 1, 2003]
[edit reason] No URLs or Sigs Please - seeTOS#13 [/edit]
(1) Difference between a log analyzer and a stats software [webmasterworld.com] (Aug 20, 2003 - see msg #9)
(2) Learning more about Googlebots behaviour on my site. [webmasterworld.com] (Sept 27, 2003 - see msg #9, part 2)
Lotsa good reading ;)
/claus
