Web Statistics

[AppleSound]

Can you recommend web analysis software to use with Actinic?

You know, visitor information, search engine spidering etc.

Doesn't necessarily have to be free software.

[I-CC]

Would have thought you would have got these with your hosting account under www.domain.tld/stats/ maybe, which should provide you with the basic details that you are after...

[AppleSound]

We do. Just they are crap so we are looking for something better.

[I-CC]

http://www.webalizer.com/ seems to be a regular choice of most and can be expanded in information detail by use of its .conf file...

[Bob Isaac]

A good one is Awstats - http://awstats.sourceforge.net

[george]

Awstats looks really good Bob but installation and set-up looks hard work. What do you think Bob?

[Bob Isaac]

Installation can be a difficult, but our server is a Sun Cobalt and you can get self-install packages for this. I haven't done a manual install of Awstats, but based on other open source apps I have manually installed, they can test your patience.

[Eileen]

I've been using a freebie:

http://www.xav.com/scripts/axs/

easy to install
easy to integrate into the Actinic templates

there is a working demo link from the main page quoted above.

What I find annoying is that more and more people block their address, which makes tracking statistics more difficult.

I particularly like to see where our hits are coming from and what route they take thru the site.

cheers

[george]

I had a look at the xav one, looked a bit simplistic to me. The time I looked it did not show the number of hits coming from each referrer, although it did list the referrers as hyperlinks. Handy to know whos getting us most visitors.

[AndyMac]

AWstats is probably the best stats package:

I've found it to be tricky to install myself but you should be able to get your ISP to install for you for about £30-60. If not then we could host your site for you and set up AWstats as part of the package!