Best Web Analytic program?

[Mastercheddaar]

Hi All,

I am looking for some advice. I need a new web analytic program. My company currently uses Click Lab and it costs $750.00 a month. Being in a small business I would like to cut this cost down but get a program that does basically the same thing. Some of the features that I currently have with click lab that I like are:

* Traffic Summary - must have
* Paid Traffic Summary - must have
* Search Engines - good to have
* Keywords - must have
* Paid Keywords - must have
* Summary by Date - interesting but not needed
* Landing Pages - good to have
* IP Addresses - good to have
* Click Paths - good to have
* Actions - good to have, shows requests vs. applications
* Countries - interesting but not needed

One thing that I would like would be a program that shows the number of conversations from any given campaign. I also would like something that includes click fraud as well. I know Click lab does it all but again I am looking to cut costs.

Thank you,

[dburdon]

Mastercheddaar,

take a look at Statcounter. I use where I can and find its cost benefit vastly superior to many other systems. You can get it for free. But an investment of say $25 per month will provide plenty of analytics capacity.

[achronister]

IndexTools is the best low-cost package I have seen. It's also recommended by quite a few people in the industry.

[Soulkeeper]

Okay, here's a good one for you........have you thought of trying google analytics??
It has all the features you're looking for and it's free!!!!!

[nazcreative]

I second Google analytics. I set it up for all of my clients and when the time comes to do a marketing audit, I have all the info I need and they love it. Google Analytics is the way to go for small business.
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Dan Naz
Integrated Marketing Services
Apparel Graphic Design
Puerto Rican Graphic Tees

[jimpajaro]

Google analytics works well for small websites but when you have hundreds of pages and a couple of million page views a month Google analytics will really slow your website's pages way down. My website went from a .7 seconds average load time to 1.8 seconds average load time. I removed Google analytics and it went back to my .7 seconds average.

As you can tell I too would like a great analytics program that isn't out to break my bank. But so far all I have found is a custom programer for $20,000.00 and he did not impress me much.

[jglogau]

www.hitslink.com, used it for years, good solid package.

[nipplecharms1]

I have to second dburdon with Statcounter. I use them on a few of our sites and gives me great info. I cannot track conversions but that is for another subject.

Later,

Michael

[wpriley]

I second Aaron's recommendation of www.IndexTools.com. I now have it up on seven site and am very pleased with its functionality versus price. I particularly like the customizable Dashboard view and the ability to automatically E-mail one or more reports of my choice scheduled as I designate.

I you utilize pay-per-click, IndexTools can log in to your Google or Yahoo (and perhaps other) accounts and update your analytics with your pay-per-click details.

Tracking individual advertising campaigns of all types (banner, E-mail, reciprocal links, etc. is a snap).

IndexTools is not free but is, in my opinion, a bargain for the high end features it offers.

One note, IndexTools pushes their fee based set-up services. This might imply that it's a challenge to implement. I've used four other embedded tracking based stat package and don't find IndexTools any more difficult (or any easier) than any of the others. I be surprised if anyone in this group would have a problem implementing it.

IndexTools has offices on the U.S. and in Europe (Hungary I think). I work odd hours and like the ability to call either location (depending on the time of day or night) for technical support on the rare occasions when I need it. My support experiences have, by the way, always been good.

[seomagnet]

Hello,

Google Analytics is Good but some of the data is not 100% accurate. They also do not allow you to see all of the complete stats as the original Urchin version did.

A Hosted version or downloadable log analyzer version of http://www.clicktracks.com/ is good. I use clicktracks myself.

Webtrends I've heard is good for the hosted version but I've never tried it.

If you want something to host yourself,

Awstats is a free perl program that reads the logfiles if you want something in perl to host yourself. It shows a lot of details, as much as most commercial software.

Just some ideas,
Chris