I Have Been Spying On You
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I recently signed up with Google analytics. It’s a _free_ service from Google that allows you to track visitors to your web site. There’s also pretty tight integration with Google’s Adwords so you can manage your advertising campaigns more effectively.
I find the utility a nice addition to my set of packages. The statistics are only updated every day it seems, though I’ve read reports that they are meant to be updated every 6 hours. The service is entirely free and you just need to whack in some javascript to every page you want tracked by the service.
To complement these stats I also use “analog”:http://www.analog.cx/ on my web server to collate and present me with up to the second web usage. An alternative to analog is “awstats”:http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ which is written in perl. Analog is written in C and is consequently much faster parsing your log files than awstats.
