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SEO Warrior
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SEO Warrior

by John I Jerkovic
November 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
496 pages
13h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Popular Web Stats Tools

Many different free and paid web stats tools are available. Table 6-3 shows some of the best known web stats tools, along with their pros and cons.

Table 6-3. Popular web stats tools

Tool

Pros

Cons

Webtrends

(http://www.webtrends.com)

Price: $10,000+

  • Powerful analytics package

  • Offers everything other tools offer, and more

  • Expensive

  • Difficult for novice users

Analog

(http://www.analog.cx)

Price: Free

  • Solid offering

  • Popular

  • Everything shown on a single HTML file

WebLog Expert

(http://www.weblogexpert.com)

Price: $74.95–$124.95

  • Elegant interface and graphics

  • Different report styles (.html, .pdf, etc.)

  • Relatively inexpensive

  • Does not have features of high-end tools

AWStats

(http://awstats.sourceforge.net)

Price: Free

  • Professional-looking interface

  • Popular

  • Written in Perl

  • Could have some additional graphs found in paid tools

Webalizer

(http://www.webalizer.com)

Price: Free

  • Fast, written in C

  • Simple interface

  • Straight-to-the-point approach

  • Takes some time to get used to stacked metric diagrams

  • Could have some additional graphs found in AWStats

Webalizer and AWStats are readily available on a plethora of shared hosting providers, whereas WebLog Expert is the notable inexpensive alternative to Webtrends and other commercial offerings.

You can use any web stats package as long as it can give you the information you need to do your SEO. At a minimum, you need to be able to get the following types of metrics to have a good picture of how your website is doing:

  • Number of visitors

  • Unique visitors

  • Number ...

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