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What is someone who is new to developing websites do when they have little money to buy an analyzer like FastStats, Webtrends or NetTracker...
...and little experience in setting up something like Analog w/ Report Magic and/or using homemade scripts to do the job.
Thanks for suggestions...
We ended up going with a product called Advanced Log Analyzer (http://www.abacre.com/ala/). Truth be told - its great at what it does. The limitations I've seen are that it doesn't play well as well clustered server environment as a few of the big-name players (Webtrends, etc.), doesn't do much in terms of parameter-based reporting - but has a lot of flexibility in terms of filtering/non-standard reports.
I'd suggest giving the trial version a run in your environment to see how it works for you. There are both a CGI (IIS/Apache only) and stand-alone client versions that you can run. As far as cost goes, it was by far the best fit for our needs. I still use it for reporting on a couple of our sites.
I think you need to take one of three directions:
1. Find a host who offers log analysis
2. Bite the bullet and spring for an inexpensive package
3. Roll up your sleeves and learn to configure the freeware.
