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
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[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

[brian.mark]

I'd also give a nod to IndexTools. We track a few million pageviews/month on one site with it and haven't had any issues.

Brian.

[Mastercheddaar]

Thanks to all that answered my post. You all gave me something to look at for the next couple of days. I will do a little research and see what catches my eye.

ttyl

Mastercheddaar

[JohneeMac]

google an.. (goAn)

[ArtB]

At present I'm using Urchin 5 and I'm planning to use Google Analytics for a website with over 5 million views per month. The website has around 20.000 pages.
Does anybody else (except jimpajaro)use GA for websites with similar traffic and can give an advice about GA performance?

[brian.mark]

Since it only updates every 4 - 6 hours, it's tough to track what a sudden spike in traffic came from or if sales are down, it's tough seeing if traffic is down or if there is some other problem.

That number of pageviews isn't an issue... but if you need to know what's going on now, you'll need to pay for something that's more real-time.

Brian.

[hawash]

what is the best log analytics program ( free _ isearched download .com and i found many

[erikko]

i never thought that Google analytics is not that accurate. im using it in quite a while and i never notice those anyway thanks for the posts

[Ashiro]

For the pure geek level I find the Python library "Scratchy" to be very good. It graphs and analyses your webservers log files.

[oldmonk]

I've used Nihuo Web Log Analyzer for years, excellent for me. Very powerful filtering system is integrated in, you can dig out many interesting data from log file with it.

[THE BERG]

I have a similar question:

I use Google Analytics and have relatively small amounts of niche traffic right now, but enough to sell advertising. I'm looking to implement ads on my sites from local vendors, not just adsense.

Anyone know a good analytic program that show's how much your banners are getting clicked on? I'd also like one with some kind of feature that would allow my advertisers to view their own click report online securely.

GA has worked well for me. I know how to track my own banner clicks, but would really like this other feature. How does one prove the clicks their giving an advertiser?

Mahalo,
THE BERG

[ldylion214]

Originally Posted by 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.

I find Statcounter easy to use and very informative. I've thought of buying the upgrade. 25.00 monthly is reasonable.

[simonm]

Originally Posted by jglogau

Website statistics, web analytics, hit counter - HitsLink, used it for years, good solid package.

I've used hitslink for some years and have found the stats easy to use and very complete. Having managed many sites through a single interface I now need to split into two areas and need to know whether possible and how, I keep emailing support but they have yet to even acknowledge!

I'm now running free Google Analytics in parallel in case I need to walk away from paid for hitslink!

Simon

[simonm]

Hitslink for some years but clearly there's no support, see my comment above. I'm trying out statcounter on a couple of sites, so far looks good.

Simon