[Web4lib] web analytics software

[Chris Barr]

If you have access to log files on your server you can try something
like AWStats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/) or Webalizer
(http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/).

Otherwise I would echo the Google Analytics with a couple words of
caution. First, you are giving Google even more data to add to their
heap. And second, Google Analytics requires adding a Javascript to each
page to be tracked, meaning more on the frontend for the user to load.
(It is minimal and will be cached, but is a legitimate concern for some.)

Another option (and also requires JS) is a nice little package called
Mint (http://haveamint.com/) which has a very well designer interface,
but maybe not quite as much depth of information.

Good Luck,
Chris Barr
Villanova University



Kristine Ferry wrote:
> We are currently looking for alternatives to our current web analytics
> tool, Nettracker.  It would be great to hear what others are using and
> if they are satisfied both in terms of the data they get and the effort
> required to maintain the software on the back-end.  Any comments would
> be appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> Kristine
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> UCI Libraries
> University of California, Irvine
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