Web stat tools

I’ve used a few of web analytic tools over the year, but by far my favorite was ClickTracks. They even made me a featured user on their site last year. My first web stat tool was Analog and then I added the Report Magic package onto it to build visual reports. Analog did a great job, provided the information I needed at the time, but I got tired of waiting for the reports to run so after trying AWStats I found the money to switch Deep Metrix’s LiveStats. After a few upgrades on LiveStats, I started having some server/database issues so I switched to ClickTracks. The level of analysis and targeting for ClickTracks is very impressive for the price.

Lately, I’ve been using Google Analytics (formerly Urchin) for all of my sites. It’s very easy to get up and running, provides full featured reports and it’s free. For a long time I used tools that analyze log files because you didn’t have to add any code (javascript) to all the pages on your site, but with the data that Google Analytics provides with their script I think it is worth the hassle of editing each page to add the code. Besides if you used templates on your pages, adding the code isn’t too much trouble.

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