Sawmill

I've had a look at the site and it looks good...

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We have been running webtrends for quite some time now (2 years). Increasingly we are getting more and more frustrated with its inability to do what we want it to.

We've tried livestats as well, but with them you may as well be making the stats up.

Which brings me to Sawmill.net. Has anyone have any experience with this package?

There seems to be quite an active community and the developer is constantly updating it.

Any feedback before I take the plunge?

[celerityfm]

Sawmill is excellent- we had Webtrends and switched to it, it makes alot more sense, but be prepared for large database files...

[europeforvisitors]

Sawmill provides a ton of information, but there's a learning curve associated with the program, and you can find yourself waiting for data to process as you move around the different report pages.

I use two log analyzers: Sawmill and FastStats Analyzer. FastStats Analyzer is lighting-fast, and it's perfect for reviewing a specific time period (such as yesterday's traffic). One of my favorite features is the ability to view referrers for individual pages. However, there are two things that keep it from being an all-in-one solution: (1) It doesn't have a list of search-engine crawler visits, and (2) You have to set up and run separate reports for different time periods. (In other words, you need to run one report for "yesterday," another report for "past 7 days," another report for "current month," or whatever. Sawmill, on the other hand, lets you view reports for different time periods simply by clicking the appropriate day, week, or month on its calendar display.)