Web counter and stats package - recommendations?

[thepeoplespal]

Can anyone recommend an unobtrusive/invisible Web counter and stats package for a new business venture?

We have rudementary stats from the website database, but I want to be able to analyse:

Referring Search Words and Search Engines
Referring Web Site
Referring Search Engines
Moving Average Charts
.CSV export to Excel
etc etc,

Obviously I'm looking it done cheaply. Any ideas?

[Mark.S]

I read about a pretty good freebie on www.sourceforge.com a few weeks ago, think it was called awstats.

[FunkyGibbon]

If you want a free and fast web stats package you can't do much better than analog.

This site is also useful as it describes in very good detail why most web statistics (like any stats I guess) are mainly bollox and only useful for spotting trends - not absolutes.

[skittle]

Depends what you mean by cheap.

We are looking at a company called NEDSTAT to monitor our web pages - its costs circa £2.5k per domain

www.nedstat.com/f31_index.htm

[thepeoplespal]

skittle said:

Depends what you mean by cheap. We are looking at a company called NEDSTAT to monitor our web pages - its costs circa £2.5k per domain www.nedstat.com/f31_index.htm

What now thats just a bit too on the steep side, I was thinking more like £2.50p a domain ;-), I think the free for now option is the way I'd want for the moment until things start going well on the sales front.

[docevi1]

free option -> Xtreme tracking

I use it and it's great for the one page it's listed on.

[thepeoplespal]

FunkyGibbon said:

If you want a free and fast web stats package you can't do much better than analog. This site is also useful as it describes in very good detail why most web statistics (like any stats I guess) are mainly bollox and only useful for spotting trends - not absolutes.

Thanks everyone for all your kind help and suggestions.

Only that I found analog so difficult to setup (Regarding the log file type)and the missus who is more savvy about these things than me, actually phoned our webhosting tech support, I'd never have found out that a web analysis programme is included in our hosting package for nothing.

It is called matrixstats and at first looks it seems pretty good (as in it does what I want it to) I also like the fact that I can filter out my own IP address and thus make the stats a bit more meaningful.

Another question answered sucessfully from PHrs, even if I went a little round the houses.

>> Edited by thepeoplespal on Saturday 14th August 03:05