A satisfactory stats package

what do you recommend?

[tankman]

I have webalizer stats for my site. Is this what everyone else uses for finding out when google pays them a visit?

[keyplyr]

I used SuperStats while hosting at Hypermart a while back. Complete tracking options, however their code added approx 2500 kb to each page, slowing load times. I personally didn't feel it was a viable trade-off. However, Hypermart may have been offering a custom version.

[spdypdy]

My host provides me with wusage. The problem is that lately my host has been charging me for excess bandwidth in which I am almost sure that my websites are not generating that much. The only conclusion that I can come up with is either my host is lying about my bandwidth usage to over-charge me or there is a lot of other websites "hotlinking" to my graphics and files. The wusage program provides stats that show that there are alot of other websites hotlinking to my files but as soon as I find out I just change the file name. What I also noticed is that all those files that i changed the names now show up in the stats as files not found which is what I expect but it still adds the amount of bandwidth the file would have generated as if it was downloaded which it couldnt have because I changed the name. I told my host this and they told me that they are not counting the files in which were not found toward the total bandwidth, which I do not believe them. My web sites were generating a consistanty amount of bandwidth for about 2 years when all of a sudden each and every month now they are charging me for going over 15gigs of bandwidth a month! Does anyone know of a good way I can figure out if my host is lying or not or maybe something I could add to the wusage config file to include a report to show this? I hope I explained this correctly or that somebody understands what I am trying to say here. Anybody out there HELP!!

Thanks

[keyplyr]

>Does anyone know of a good way I can figure out if my host is lying or not

Mentioned often around here, [analog.cx...] runs on your desktop and analyses your downloaded raw log files, and it's free. You can configure it to do many, many things including bandwidth usage per day/week/month. It will also help to identify web based hot-linking.

[spdypdy]

thanks, I will give them a try and let you know...

[tofu]

[awstats.sourceforge.net...]

Awstats - It's a free tool that generates advanced web server access statistics graphically.
Realtime statistics - [awstats.sourceforge.net...]

Free, Free, Free, did I forget to mention the word free and it's open source and one of the best.

[wilreynolds]

Luckily I work for a large company who can afford an expensive package, but I am using NetTracker, it freaking rocks!

I have used superstats, accrue hitlist (marketwave), webtrends, and hitbox pro. Nothing comes even close. Netracker needs someone who knows how to manipulate the data to get meaningful reports, but it does a great job!

[spdypdy]

hi again,
I tried analog and a couple others but had a hard time understanding how to run the programs. However, I found a program called "weblog expert" and found it to have the most straight forward and easy to understand format. It produces nice graphic charts and some very detailed reports but it dosent help me to prove that my host is lying about my bandwidth usage, claiming that I use way more than I truly believe thus over charging me every month for too much bandwidth. Like I said before, my host provides wusage stats but will not help me at all to configure it to give me the reports that I want. I wrote to the company that created the wusage stat program and they also refused to help me. I use MS FrontPage to publish my pages and I dont think that it produces any kind of reports about bandwidth or hotlinking . I also am able to publish my webpages through a web based interface that my host provides. Any suggestions out there?

spdypdy

[troppo]

Spdypdy

Like I said above take a look at www.123loganalyzer.com (I dunno if I'm meant to quote urls but others seem to ;-) ) I am like you had trouble (or lost interest in) configuring reports - the loganalyzer stuff is very webtrends-like without the proce tag. The trials I've done seem good. See what you think.

Cheers
Troppo