Best Stats Monitoring Tools

Which Ones Do You Use and How?

[thvi]

What are the reccomended tools for stats monitoring? And, if you have a favorite tool, what is your methodology for using it?

Are there good free ones, or is it better to buy? I am not averse to paying for a tool if it's going to do the job.

Thanks!

thvi

[ZenArcher]

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There was also an income tracking PHP script posted on this board.
[webmasterworld.com...]

To keep an eye on the trend of the day (and to be sure nothing's broken) I have it email me a short report periodically.

[edited by: Jenstar at 4:58 pm (utc) on May 16, 2005]
[edit reason] No tool names please, as per charter [/edit]

[Jenstar]

We cannot include links/names of all the various tracker programs, as per the charter [webmasterworld.com]. Thanks!

[cornwall]

Have a look on G for the actual software names

Basically there are 2 sorts available

1. Software that will access your AdSense earnings and download the data to your desktop on a regular basis. It will output it in grapical form if that's how you want it

2. Server side software that analyses your website. You add code to each page, and the server side database records visits to that page and if an AdSense ad had been clicked. For each click it will tell you the advertiser whose ad was clicked. Tells you much more, but that is the basis of it

Both will cost you.