Comments on: The Best Free Web Analytics Tools

By: gabi

gabi — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:29:31 +0000

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SEO Audit | Layercakemarketing.com — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:39:25 +0000

[...] programs; it’s best not to rely on a lone data source. You can read this article on some of the best free web analytics tools, but looking at Piwik or Woopra would be a good place to [...]

By: T Hughes

T Hughes — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Thanks for this post, the product lists are particularly useful. I will say that most of these products are great if you’re a more technical user, but most business-oriented end users can’t navigate their complexities. I always recommend offering a more user-friendly analytics software package such as Overstat (www.overstat.com) for end users, in addition to providing the more complex products for the techies.

By: Jon Combe

Jon Combe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:20:17 +0000

Thanks for the link to my JAWStats project, it is much appreciated.

Your write-up implies JAWStats was created by the people who created AWStats but this is not the case. JAWStats was created purely as a “web2.0″ (how I hate that expression) interface for a product that many, many web hosting companies do provide out of the box for their customers. JAWStats wouldn’t exist at all if the AWStats interface was nicer, but it isn’t so I opted to step in.

You should mention that “front end” stats packages (ala Google Analytics, Piwik) and “back end” stats packages (ala AWStats, Woopra, Analog) base their information on fundamentally different data. A webmaster should use one front end system and one back end system in conjunction with each other for the most complete view. Let me know if you want to know more about this.

A good article, Andrew, thank you. It’s really good to see such healthy competition in the analytics market.

By: Martin Lock

Martin Lock — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:14:25 +0000

In the face of the tough competition, Alexa is coming up with more and more user friendly and unique features. Ability to create own search engine by giving access to the crawler is quite a novel feature in itself.