Comments on: What's a good weblog traffic analyzer for a personal website?

Question: What's a good weblog traffic analyzer for a personal website?

robbie01 — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:13:45 -0800

What's a good weblog traffic analyzer for a personal website?

I have a single website that I'd like to track the stats on, my ISP provides standard .log files. It is just a personal site, so I don't need enterprise-level data analysis or reports.

I'm currently using the free version of Weblog Expert Lite 3.5, which runs locally on my PC (preferred, though I'm open to a Mac-based app as well.)

I don't want to have to install anything fancy or do anything to my site or to the servers in UNIX. Just something that will take a standard .log file and show me pretty charts and graphs, DNS lookups, all the normal stuff -- and without much effort on my part.

Just wondering if there is a better package I should look at (free, shareware or VERY reasonable commercial), or should I just spend the $80 to get the Professional version of Weblog Analyzer that offers more features than the free version?

By: leafwoman

leafwoman — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:25:46 -0800

Webalizer, except I don't know whether it is available for windows.

By: darkness

darkness — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:47:13 -0800

Webalizer does run on windows (dos actually)

And I'll 2nd that, webalizer is good.

If you have $20,000 to blow, you could get an Adlex box. Oh, you said resonable? Never mind...

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:57:31 -0800

AWStats is another good one.

By: speranza

speranza — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:08:33 -0800

StatCounter rocks.

By: speranza

speranza — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:10:30 -0800

Oh, I shouldn't have skimmed, StatCounter doesn't seem to be quite what you're looking for.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:08:33 -0800

I've been using Web-Stat for years -- only $5/month for a pretty good look at who visits my site, when, location, etc. I'm happy with it.

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:06:08 -0800

Analog. Free, runs on Windows.

By: bbrown

bbrown — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:22:59 -0800

I'll second Analog. I've been using it for years. If you're willing to use a Mac, I've created a shell script that downloads today's and yesterday's log files, reverse DNS's and gzips all the log files, and generates five Analog reports for today, yesterday, week to date, month to date, and all to date.

LogJammer

If you set it to run daily, it's fairly automatic. I run mine manually so I occasionally have to go in and FTP the log files down.