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I'd completely forgotten it existed, though Boutell used to be a pretty well-known provider of web-related tools (back in the days when there were only a few dozen people who knew what a web-based application was). I haven't seen a WUsage installation in years. I think the Analytics module will handle it as well (but I might be wrong about that one). It isn't free, but it's got some nice features. Another choice is 'Clicky' which is a service like Google Analytics. Piwik seeks to be an Open Source replacement for Google Analytics, and it's well on its way to being a pretty good option. I think we have Webalizer and AWStats configured and processing, as well, but I haven't looked at them in a couple of years.I get more useful data in an easier to read format from Google Analytics. It’s important to understand what each is capable of tracking. Because of that, they can show different numbers. These systems have a similar purpose, but measure things in different ways.
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We use Google Analytics for our sites (also available in the Analytics plugin, obviously), and it works quite well for most things-I don't know that we'll stick with it forever, as it does have some negatives (one of them being that we no longer have exclusive ownership of the data, which is probably not a huge issue, but it's still a moderate concern). Some customers who track visitors using AWStats (which we provide) also use Google Analytics, or other software that tracks statistics like a WordPress plugin. It's a pretty nice tool with a lot of cool features, and a really nice looking UI. Those rules are updated with AWStats updates.

AWStats has url syntax rules for the most popular search engines (that's the 'number detected'). I will point out that we've just added Piwik into the next version-it ties into the Analytics module to insert the JavaScript bug automatically. AWStats will report 500 visits from robots and 2000 visits from human visitors.Sawmill Analytics uses a 'currently active' list of robots based on the database. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and neither is perfect.
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Other professional tag management tools include TagMan (Ensighten (and Tealium (is a hard term in this context. Google Tag Manager (tagmanager) makes it easy to add and work with these tags without requiring any coding knowledge.
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Google Optimize, which you would have learnt about in the Conversion optimisation chapter is Google’s platform for running tests and assessing your website’s performance.Ī test the significance of basic split tests, a split-test calculator is available at: When you use cookie-based tracking, you need to add code tags to your web pages and these need to be maintained, updated and changed occasionally. When it comes to running split tests, if you don’t have the technical capacity to run these in-house, there are some third-party services that can host them for you. Bear in mind that if you switch vendors, you may lose historical data. Both tools can also display different values for the same metric due to time zone settings - which are easily overlooked. This obviously causes differences in session-related metrics between the two. AWStats analyzes server log files and produces HTML reports in a nice graphical display. Google Analytics expires user sessions after 30 minutes of inactivity whereas the default session length in AWStats is 1 hour. It is written using the Perl language and works as a CGI or from the command line. You will need to determine which package best serves your needs. AWStats is an open-source advanced web analytics tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP, or mail server statistics graphically.
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Some are free and some need to be paid for. The first thing you need is a web analytics tool for gathering data.
