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
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Webtrends Price: $10,000+ |
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Analog Price: Free |
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WebLog Expert Price: $74.95–$124.95 |
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AWStats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net) Price: Free |
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Webalizer Price: Free |
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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 ...