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5
May

Mint

One of the slickest web statistics packages I’ve seen is Mint. It has a modular architecture, and the most easy-to-read and understand console I’ve seen. You won’t get the same complex analytics as with something like WebTrends, but it’s only $30/domain and you can actually use this.

1
Jun

TraceWatch

{mosimage}If you run a web site at one time or another you will want to get statistics on your traffic. There are, of course, a lot of commercial scripts which range from cheap to very expensive. And there are even more free (open-source) scripts. Unfortunately, with most of the free offerings are rather poor. Either they are too complicated to install, don’t integrate well with heterogenous site frameworks, or aren’t very pleasant to look at. Or all of the above.

TraceWatch is different, though. To begin with, it is easy to install. Un-zip the archive, set up a database, run a simple install PHP file and it’s done. Overall it has a flexible installation scheme which allows for multiple instances of the script to co-exist, handy when running multiple sites off a root folder.

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