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June 11, 2003
Site Statistics - An Informal Poll
What tools do people use to gather site usage statistics? WebTrends? SiteCatalyst? Home-grown Perl or shell scripts parsing Apache access logs? What are people willing to pay for these types of solutions, and how important is it to your business? If you don't mind, when commenting, please indicate how much traffic your site gets.
Posted by cantrell at June 11, 2003 03:08 AM | References
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WebTrands Gold.
We have everything scheduled on internal servers to generate varying levels of reports (from exec summary reports through to Full detailed reports) depending on what the client is paying for.
These are batched to run on weekly/monthlh basis and then uploaded into an extranet where the client has access to lastest/past reports.
Webtrends is pretty much the full package. Can be a bit clunky and tempermental when it comes to filtering - but it does the job.
Posted by: pete hotchkiss at June 11, 2003 04:29 AM
I personally like AWStats. Opensource, and feature rich.
Posted by: Daniel Dura at June 11, 2003 11:01 AM
we run webalizer (opensource), have some bash/awk scripts for parsing Apache logs directly, and do a little bit of application-level logging into a database for some things. we usually hover between 50-80,000 requests a day, but spike up over a million on occasion.
Posted by: barneyb at June 11, 2003 01:12 PM
We use Live Stats, in a shared and dedicated hosting environment cost was something like $900.
We have sites ranging from 0 to a 1.5 million requests.
Posted by: Bryan F. Hogan at June 11, 2003 01:57 PM
We use a variety of apps depending on the client -- including Webtrends and Deepmetrix. More and more we simply use the stats that come as part and parcel of the underlying FarCry CMS (http://farcry.daemon.com.au/) system we use for a lot of our CMS deployments.
Posted by: Geoff Bowers at June 12, 2003 02:10 AM
I took a look at awstats. Pretty nice. Not hard to set up, and very comprehensive. I'll check out webalizer next. Thanks for the responses.
Posted by: Christian Cantrell at June 12, 2003 02:17 PM
http://www.reinvigorate.net
Probably one of the best free stats systems out there...
Posted by: Josh Dura at June 13, 2003 04:51 PM
Why people use those statistics? I find them quite useless. They don't tell me what I want to know about the trafic on my site. I prefer to build my own reports of course using CF combined with CountryHawk and BrowserHawk (works with CF custom tags).
Posted by: Ad BEc at June 18, 2003 06:32 AM
We use NetTracker here at our company. Seems to do pretty much everything that we need it to.
Posted by: Jacob at June 29, 2003 11:31 AM
For free stats, yes, Awstats is probably the best.
But if you have a budget, check out Urchin.
Posted by: Michael Heraghty -- Statistics Consultant at November 10, 2003 03:30 PM