What are you using to analyze stats?

I saw this one:
http://www.sane.com/.../NetTracker/pro.html

Seems to do more or less the same as WebTrends - but a bit cheaper to say the least.

Any suggestions (Unix)

Klaus

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We use ClickTracks (http://www.clicktracks.com/) to produce PDF outputs to pass onto our marketing/sales people. It's for Windows. Simply the best investmnet I've ever made in stats/tracking packages.

- wil

Thanks Will - it appears that you need to download your log files daily? Is that a fact?

Klaus

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Yes, if your log files get wiped daily. Any stats package needs access to the very latest log files to give you the very latest information.

ClickTracks comes with a bundled server that can be left running which will download your log files on a regular basis, so you don't have to do it yourself.

- wil

Quite nice actually - just downloaded the demo - thanks Will

Klaus

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Are there any good packages that can be run on the server and viewed through a browser?

Analog is free and can do that.

It all depends on what kind of information you are tracking and in what format you wish to display the resulted data.

ClickTracks monitors trends, and watches how people move throughout your site. Traditional packages such as Analog just log access hits, browser information etc. etc. and just compile nice, but pretty useless, charts.

- wil

On my dedicated server I have Analog in conjunction with Report Magic - the stats are really cool and detailed.

Can Analog tie together the keywords with the search engines?

I have often found stats programs that give a table of keywords, then a table of referrers, but very few link them.

It would be great to know that "X" hit came from "Y" search engine using "Z" search term(s), and even have the search string displayed and maybe linked back to the search engine.

We might want to generate this type of report per search engine, per time period (day, week, last 30 days, etc.), per key word, more.

The idea is to really target what keywords are coming up in which search engines (and where in the search rankings) over whatever time period.

If Analog can be set up to do this, that would be great.

Yeah I got that too via gpanel - however you can't tell much about users - unique users, time spent total user sessions can you?

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I looked at Urchin:

http://www.urchin.com

I think it produces pretty basic stats. At least, that's what I saw in the demo.

I'm looking for a really good log reader that can do what I mentioned above. The Urchin stats are all separated, not integrated.

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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

Yeah that is a nice one - but way expensive...

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