What tracking app to use

What is the best tracking app to use for stats?

[Buster42]

What tracking app /engine do folks here use?

Are hosted tracking sites (statcounter, Freestat) a waste of time.
Is there one obviously better than another?
What is most preferred?

[Prolific]

google.com/analytics/

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[treeline]

Google Analytics is a lot of detailed info, easy to understand, at a very reasonable cost. It's free.

[Buster42]

The site says you can only join by invitation only due to high demand.
They've just sent out invitations on Jan 19. How often do they issue invitations?

[McKennaP]

"Are hosted tracking sites (statcounter, Freestat) a waste of time."

I have found one feature in StatCounter to be very useful, the user path tracking. This is something that Google Analytics doesn't have and I have found very interesting.

[wildbest]

omniture

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[Receptional]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[jaschuster]

I use Nihuo Web Log Analyzer. It only costs $99 and has a very nice GUI.

[morty]

resultrak