is there anything out there better than google analytics? i like how it works i just dont like how it only updates once a day..
If you are just interested in site stats, then you may be happy with LiveStats.XSP. It doesn't have all of the information that Google Analytics does, but you can get stats in nearly real time. Unfortunately, it is a server-side solution so you have to buy/install it. Also, Microsoft just purchased DeepMetrix which produces LiveStats. They no longer support the software and will be rolling out something new soon. I believe Microsoft bought DeepMetrix in order to have a stats package to compete with Google Analytics.
I've never really 'taken' to analytics, but it does give you a lot of different stats in one place. I prefer statcounter because it's real time, and also use whatcounter, crazyegg and hittail - they don't do quite the same as analytics, but do give me lots of useful info