Free Website Analytics Programs

tonymax_2

Wanted to start a thread about free website Analytics Programs...

I use Google Analytics, what do you use? (free only)

Also, please let us know (by voting) if you use paid or free analytics.

Thanks!

Bob63

Google Analytics and Sitemeter. Gives me everything I need for the three websites I manage.

isofa

Webalizer and Google.

smileyjohn

Been using Clicktracks for years, and keep using it because I can compare stats between now and last year, but we're using Google analaytics with a full e-commerce implementation with adwords which gives us much more information. I don't know how any of the other Analytics providers will stay in business competing against GA

stupha

A combi of Sitemeter for quick, live, see-what's-happening-right-now, Google Analytics for more detailed activity over recent days/weeks, Awstats (installed on web host) for longer term trends, and a little raw log analysis to extract some specific data on certain media files.
Blimey, sounds more complicated than it is!

john_s_2

I download the logs for my site and analyse them using Analog:

http://www.analog.cx/

It's a bit of a learning curve but worth it for the details you can extract.

For instance, if you don't appreciate robots crawling your site that aren't asking for the robots.txt file you can use the results to track down their IP address and block them (using the .htaccess). Pretty pointless really as I'm sure they can easily use a different IP address, but it passes the time, and I thought I ought to give an example!

A bit more useful - I don't block hotlinking to images (it's quite interesting to see where they're being used!) but again this allows you to track down websites that are taking the pee.