Which Web Statistics Package Would You Use? 83
ken-doh asks: "We host about 200 customers web sites on a Windows platform, we want to provide them with a simple web statistics package, to track hits and other useful pieces of information. We have been using Deepmetrix LiveStats XSP which has been perfect for our customers, but since Microsoft purchased it, the product is no more, with support ending next year. So we need to buy a new stats package. Any ideas?"
there's a couple of good tools (Score:4, Interesting)
I've seen lots of different packages and frankly I sometimes wonder why people pay for them. They're typically (actually I guess they're literally) off-the-shelf stuff that, while offering nice and interesting features, don't cover everything for everybody. I think it's a "you get what you pay for mentality", i.e., people insist on buying packages to do this kind of analysis.
I've written probably more than 20 different web filters for various analyses because the OTS stuff didn't get me the info I wanted.
And for any more-than-small IT staff, there's always someone there who knows the tools, and can slap together stat info and tweak it ad nauseum until management sees the analysis they think they want. Lots of staff will even write it on their own time -- they like to tinker with that stuff.
Also, though I haven't looked, I'll bet there are some great CPAN modules that get you what you want as a good start with the added benefit of having the code for your own tweaking.
Considering the article specifically is asking for simple web stats, I think sed, awk, perl, and others is a perfect way to go.
Or, you could buy yet another package and risk Microsoft buying that product and disappearing it.
Anlog (Score:2, Interesting)