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Hi I am interested to find out what a good way to collect web stats is for a website. Im trying the Google stats right now, but im having a bit of trouble with it, my host provides them but they are very very basic, being able to see the number of my visitors, what they click on and things like that in detail would be nice.

What are your suggestions? Thanks.
 
wizard91 said:
Thanks, and yes please.

Pulled a few pages out and took screens;

General summary


Daily report


Referring site


Status code report


Request report


Sorry for the nasty jpg compression, clicky to enlarge etc.

Still not sure about installing it on other hosts mind.

Edit: Interesting to see how many hits my sig got in the few hours it was up and the last stat update, aswell as the 80 ish mb of bandwitdh!
 
Nice, thanks a lot for the screenies, im gonna install this now, im wondering if it displays unique visitors or not though, i'll post if I can get it up though :)
 
wizard91 said:
Nice, thanks a lot for the screenies, im gonna install this now, im wondering if it displays unique visitors or not though, i'll post if I can get it up though :)

It shows IP's and the like, I just didn't get a shot of that because I couldn't be bothered to change the format of them, let alone blank out IP's. ;)

It shows the number of requests they make and the percentage of that, but it only seems to list 50 before cutting others off the list.

Edit: You might also need http://www.reportmagic.org/ , they have a sample at http://www.reportmagic.org/sample/index.html
 
WotDa said:
It shows IP's and the like, I just didn't get a shot of that because I couldn't be bothered to change the format of them, let alone blank out IP's. ;)

It shows the number of requests they make and the percentage of that, but it only seems to list 50 before cutting others off the list.

Edit: You might also need http://www.reportmagic.org/ , they have a sample at http://www.reportmagic.org/sample/index.html
:( im having no luck, I need to be able to run the .exe on my providers computer with remote access or something, which I cant do. Gona give Google stats another go then lol.
 
wizard91 said:
:( im having no luck, I need to be able to run the .exe on my providers computer with remote access or something, which I cant do. Gona give Google stats another go then lol.

Yea, I came to that conclusion too. Let me know how you get on with Google stats, was thinking of giving it a blast myself.
 
Google Analytics is great :)

Analog is a bit yucky - Awstats is much prettier, not sure offhand of the functionality differences but I'm guessing they're broadly similar :)

To use Awstats (or any logfile analysis program) you'll need to be able to access or download your site's raw log file, which shouldn't be too hard, but might be a bit of a pain.

Google Analytics however is just a bit of Javascript you add into your site - it's fantastic, though more geared towards ecommerce use.
 
nick said:
Mint
$30 but worth it I think :)
Agreed, Mint is excellent. However, it should be mentioned that Mint is designed for immediate analysis of current stats rather than analysis of stats over time since the data is continually rolling over.

So, if you need to be able to compare stats on a monthly weekly/basis then Mint isn't ideal, but great for something momentary like a blog where you want to quickly know what the current trend is e.g. sudden increase in referrals, inbound links, popular posts etc.

Other than that, yeah, AWStats and/or Webalizer does the job. Webalizer because it's fast and provides a good summary, and AWStats because it's well featured and very detailed (but consequently slower to use).
 
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