I currently have MatrixStats and i think it's pretty good. However i've got another site where there is Webalizer and i dont like it. So im wondering what other Web Statistics program there are out there which are worth trying?
Analytics if you can get it. Urchin, AWStats, LiveStats. I have used all of these and like Analytics as it seems more acurate the the rest.
Analytics that is Google Analytics?? I signed up for it about 2 months ago but im still waiting. Is Urchin the same as Analytics? I can get AWstats, are there any interesting features in it?
Analytics is Google Analytics. Very impressive and well worth waiting for when you get the details sent to you. I belive Google own Urchin now and the version I have tested is not the same although it may use the same engine to run it. I am not sure on this. AWStats is nice for a quick overview of whats what. It generally gives a lengthy page of uniques, daily visitors, referrals, search engines, keywords etc... but I find that it over estimates visitors due to not always being up todate with a list of current spiders/bots and it counts them as visitors. It still shows some nice trends in a simple format though which is good to see overall how your site is doing in a very quick way.
Google bought Urchin in May 2005 (http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/urchin.html) Google Analytics is formerly known as Urchin-On-Demand, which is a TAG based solution. It is different from the classic Urchin solution, which was provided by some Web hosting companies and which is a LOG based solution. HTH, Ludo
Awstats, Webalizer, Urchin (log-based version) are all too easily tainted by spiders, indexers and rippers. They vastly overreport visitors and pageviews... which unfortunately makes it into the "site for sale" threads far too often. I did notice the Google Analytics misses 4-5% of my actual, non-bot site visitors. It's either the fact that their code sometimes loads slowly, or that it requires JavaScript and is ignoring people with JS turned off. Either way, it underreports a little, which I guess is better than overreporting.
The fact that they're in Russia (slower to load) and every page has a scary person's portrait on it... scared me away from the site before I could try.