Website statistics program

Which are you guys using? Are you happy?

[Buzliteyear]

I need a website statistics program for my website which does about 60K uniques a month and 250k page views.

I am giving up the pay service I currently have, and I don't mind paying, but some of these things are ridiculous. My main needs are...

1. Exit Links
2. Obviously uniques, page views, most requested pages, etc.
3. Referral sites and keywords

I was hoping you could share some recommendations.

[jezra]

I use Summary Basic (summary.net). Very reasonably priced. It does everything I need it to do. There is a 30 day trial version available and it runs on multiple platforms. No, I don't work for them.

jezra

[Matt Probert]

We use Analog. It's free, highly configurable, and provides all the information one can get from one's logs.

Bear in mind that many companies make untrue claims, like tracking users through a site, and reporting "exit pages" this can NOT be ascertained from http log files alone.

Should mention, our log files are typically in the region of 800 MB of data per week (That's roughly 1.6 Million http page requests a month)

Matt

[Double_Dark]

We use AWStats. It provides quite a bit of information in a nice graphical format. The downside is that it is written in PERL.

[pmkpmk]

Using Webtrends for many years now, and getting every day more disappointed. The old standalone Windows application was great, but once we switched to the client/server component things started to go downhill. In my opinion, the value to money ratio is not given anymore.

For tasks I simply could not manage with Webtrends anymore, I started to program small PHP skripts which send email reports.

Haven't found anything good so far though. I might add Clicktracks for user-behavior analysis, but it has a considerable pricetag too. My CFO is going to raise an eyebrow if I buy statistics software for (accumulated) several thousand $.

[timchuma]

I use a combination of the the Free Funnel Web Analyzer and importing the logs into a MS Access database to track unique visitors per page.

It started when I was asked to track the visitors to one section of the site a few years ago and I have been doing it every Wednesday since then.

Thanks.

[Playful Melissa]

okay how about which one is easiest to install?

[BwanaZulia]

AWStats... love it.

BZ

[disgust]

AWStats on the server and WebLog Expert locally

[mrmean]

My host gives me web stats with my hosting. Is this not common?

[LostOne]

"My host gives me web stats with my hosting. Is this not common?"

Yes, common, but more often it doesn't have enough information. I've been stuck on "site stats" for two years. Has just what I need, easy to read, and without all the technical fluff.

[Imaster]

AWStats - Terrific. But I believe there are others out there which can give you very detailed reports.

Try a search for "awstats.pl" to see the kind of report it provides.

[BwanaZulia]

My one and only complaint with AWstats is that it does not give a good view of what happened in any one day. You can see hits/pages/visitors/bandwidth on a given day, but you can't see a day of referrers, keywords, urls hit, etc.

I have put in the request a few times to add this ability, which would be another drop down in the menu for "Day" that you could pick a day to drill in on on any report.

If you want to get down and dirty, analog is really good. Not nearly as pretty as AWstats and not as clear about "hits" vs "pages" but you can have reports for any day, minute, year, etc to see what actually happened on any given 24 hour period.

I used to run analog to produce a daily/weekly/monthly report as well as the ALL report.

BZ

[rj87uk]

I like statcounter.com its free, it does keywords, system stats, visitor path, browser info, no one could know you as using it as you can make it invisible..