Website statistics - any suggestions

[abiz]

Hi,

I'm looking for a tool to enable me to get more complete website statistics.

I already get the basic site stats, referrals and robots info, but want to get more detailed in analysing click-thru, and where my customers actually go, to be able to make informed decisions on how & whether to re-engineer my website, or the features therein.

Any suggestions would be appreciated! :)

Many thanks,
aBiz.

[falconinternetlimited]

You could ask your host.

We provide smarterstats to all our hosting customers which give very insightful statistics on website usage and analysis.

regards,

Rupert

[abiz]

You could ask your host.

We provide smarterstats to all our hosting customers which give very insightful statistics on website usage and analysis.

regards,

Rupert

Thanks for that. I do get quite a lot of stats from my host already. but much of it isn't particularly user friendly, and nothing shows me click-thrus.

Do you know if Google Analytics are any good?

[falconinternetlimited]

I haven't personally used Analytics - although they did send me an invitation to join. Sorry I can't help further.

Rupert

[bwglaw]

The best web stats is WebTrend but they are pricey. If you are on shared hosting I dont think you can change your web stat program, unless you have a dedicated server

Jonathan

[KPautomotive]

I used http://www.statcounter.com on one of my old sites - if i remember rightly the free version only gives you info on the last 100 visitors but is does tell you every page they looked at.

Kerry

[webit]

Statcounter for me.

[darren atkinson]

Hi

You might be able to get your current hosting provider to download the stats in a 'raw' format, then plug them into a stat analyser of your choice. I'm sure smarter stats will allow this, and I guess most decent stats package would as well.

Darren

[jimbojones]

Webtrends will show you everything you could possible think of......however it was costing a previous employer of mine upwards of £30k per annum, with the support of a consultant.

As mentioned above, it's pricey but extensive........

[websushi]

Hi Abiz,

I use tracewatch (http://www.tracewatch.com/) on a couple of my sites...

It shows you the summary information, latest visitors (including where they came from) as well as a useful diagramming tool to show you the path people take through your website.

It's also written in PHP - and free to use.

Hope this helps...

Kevin

[REFRESHer]

I highly recommend Google Analytics.
Very indepth down to the town users are viewing the site lots of nice graphs and charts.
I requested an invite to them and got one the next day you can put up to five URLs on there too.
Good idea to would be to create a google friendly sitemap in .xml and submit it to google first so google can fully index and spider every page in every folder you want stats. on.

[Jonathan9]

I've heard great things about Google Analytics too, sounds ideal, can't go wrong with Google at the moment, very clever software.