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From: Piers Beckley <

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Subject: UKNM: RE: Re: Web tracking software

Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:30:23 +0100

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> > After growing increasingly frustrated at having Web Trends

> thrust upon me,

> I

> > have embarked upon trying to find a better solution.  I know of two

> products

> > - Aria (by Macromedia) and RedTrack (by Red Eye) that are

> supposed to be

> > excellent but, due to price, currently out of reach.


May I take a moment to recommend the joys of Analog (http://www.analog.cx/)?

We've tested several packages here over the years, and it's the only tool

that's been able to stand up to the punishment of munching through our

server logs. (Some un-named proprietary tools that we looked at were unable

to even import the data in a reasonable timeframe, let alone process them.)


What it doesn't have is a pretty front end for management to look at. I hear

that Report Magic (http://www.wadsack-allen.com/digitalgroup/reportmagic/)

will perform this function for you - haven't tried it myself though. But

it's got nothing over and above someone with a copy of Excel and a clue.


Both of these tools are also free. (People with a clue may be more

expensive.)


And, for the benefit of those on the list new to web traffic analysis, those

all-important introductions to what you can and can't find out from

logfiles:


http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/docs/webworks.html

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/netnotes/notes57.htm


So don't even think of buying a package from someone who claims that you can

find out user numbers and session data with their package. You can't.


Piers



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