Is there a Windows utility that is (semi-)equivalent to Mint?

July 28, 2006 1:13 PM

Is there an analytics tool similar to Mint that will run on a Windows server? I'm specifically looking for a tool like the session tracker included with Mint. I thought maybe I could get that with Google Analytics, but if it is there, I can't find it.
posted by spilon to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

You might check out this advice for Windows/IIS users in setting up logging for Urchin. Clearly, if you're looking for pre-built analytic charts in Urchin (now Google), you're going to have to live with IP address/client name (which is not so neat), or implement cookies across your site, and then compound key on them, which will get you pretty good session tracking, at the cost of more work for your server, setting and reading cookies as your visitor moves around.

The kind of analytics you can get with standard Windows IIS type logging is dependent on what is being recorded in the logs. There are various Perl log and analysis tools that go beyond this, by logging more information, and providing ways to store more kinds of user agent and response information from scripts and cookies.

But the Windows Web analytics market is largely a paid software model. If your need for understanding visitor behavior is short term, or you can stand a per/month service charge for analytics, better than you can paying for software and installing it (or if you're hosting on a shared server, and can't change your logging or install software), you can use a Web services based option like OpenTracker at 16.95/mo .
posted by paulsc at 8:20 PM on July 28, 2006

Replying 4 days later but anyway....

Just download Mint. I know it's not supported for Windows, and it's not guaranteed to work. But I paid my $30 and downloaded it and works fine on Windows XP and Apache 2.0, once I'd tweaked a couple of lines.
posted by matthewr at 4:40 PM on August 1, 2006