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

July 12, 2005 4:13 PM

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?

posted by robbie01 to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Webalizer, except I don't know whether it is available for windows.
posted by leafwoman at 4:25 PM on July 12, 2005

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...
posted by darkness at 4:47 PM on July 12, 2005

AWStats is another good one.
posted by furtive at 4:57 PM on July 12, 2005

StatCounter rocks.
posted by speranza at 5:08 PM on July 12, 2005

Oh, I shouldn't have skimmed, StatCounter doesn't seem to be quite what you're looking for.
posted by speranza at 5:10 PM on July 12, 2005

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.
posted by davidmsc at 6:08 PM on July 12, 2005

Analog. Free, runs on Windows.
posted by gwint at 9:06 PM on July 12, 2005

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.
posted by bbrown at 7:22 AM on July 14, 2005