Hi James
We normally have two stats packages on every site:
- Google Analytics
- AW Stats
We have flirted with WebTrends but found it to be very unreliable. No
stats can be trusted to give 100% accurate info so comparing and
contrasting stats seems essential to try and build a complete picture.
Jim Richardson
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On 9 Mar 2010, at 11:13, James Morley wrote:
> Thanks Bilkis (and others who have responded)
>
> That last point, about comparing stats from two tools, is exactly
> the point I am keen on pursuing.
>
> Regards, James
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Mosoddik, Bilkis
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:51 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Website analytics tools
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> We use WebTrends at Museum of London in addition to Google
>> Analytics and it's really useful because it also includes in
>> its reporting downloads (all documents and media files).
>> Also, as we have many sites with different domain names, it
>> can be hard to cross reference and tally all the results
>> automatically in GA, however WebTrends allows for this.
>>
>> But actually the main thing I find really useful is to be
>> able to track the trends both in WebTrends and Google
>> Analytics and make sure they are similar and if not, it
>> prompts Jeremy or I to look into why and how. The
>> investigation always brings up something interesting. So yes,
>> overall, very useful.
>>
>> Bilkis.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bilkis Mosoddik
>> Web Content Manager, Web Team, Communications Museum of
>> London 150 London Wall London. EC2Y 5HN
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>> Fax: 020 7600 1058
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of James Morley
>> Sent: 08 March 2010 16:24
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Website analytics tools
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> We're using Google Analytics as our primary tool for
>> monitoring and reporting web stats, but there are some
>> aspects that we want to ground-truth (mainly related to
>> referrers) against another analysis tool based on our raw log
>> files. Does anyone recommend any package (Linux or
>> Windows) that we could try out?
>>
>> Whilst I'm asking, has anyone tried Yahoo's 'rival' to Google
>> Analytics
>> - http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/features.php ?
>>
>> Thanks, James
>>
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