Web Stats

[falkencreative]

Just curious... what web stats do you use? Anyone use anything besides Google Analytics?

 

I'm giving Mint a shot (http://haveamint.com/) and I really like what I see so far, even if it did cost me $30. I like that it shows current data, and you don't have to wait around for it like you do for Google Analytics (yes, I'm impatient. )

 

As I said... anyone use anything other than Google Analytics that I should look at? I like statistics... even if they don't mean much.

[falkencreative]

Anyone use Yahoo's analytics? (http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/). It looks nice too, at least at first glance.

[lwsimon]

I've used statcounter.com for a long time, but will probably self-host AWStats in the future

[administrator]

I use awstats and Google analytics (formally Urchin) and that's good for me.

 

Stefan

[shelfimage]

Besides using GA, I also use http://mon.itor.us/, http://www.quantcast.com/, and cms made simple statistics module and sometimes the vistors module.

 

I'll need to check out the Yahoo product - I haven't seen it yet

[PicnicTutorials]

I've only used awstats so far. Is Google analytics worth the trouble?

[falkencreative]

Well, I'm a bit of a numbers geek... Google Analytics seems to provide my traffic information in a clean, attractive way. I'm not sure if GA tracks 404s though, or at least I can't find it, so that's unfortunate. Still, I think I like Mint best out of the three (GA, AWstats, Mint).

[astonj]

Well, I'm a bit of a numbers geek... Google Analytics seems to provide my traffic information in a clean, attractive way. I'm not sure if GA tracks 404s though, or at least I can't find it, so that's unfortunate. Still, I think I like Mint best out of the three (GA, AWstats, Mint).

 

just did a quick search for the GA 404 reporting: -

 

Reporting on missing or error pages requires a few steps:

1. Add the Google Analytics tracking code to a custom 404 error page

 

2. Modify the tracking code on the 404 page as follows (see the urchinTracker modification in red below):

 

This code sends a virtual pageview of "/404.html?page=[pagename.html?queryparameter]" to your account, where [pagename.html?queryparameters] is the missing page name.

 

3. Look for /404.html in your Top Content report. Or to make it easier open the Dynamic Content report and expand the list for "/404.html."