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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James Morley [log in to unmask]
Website Manager Tel. +44 (0)20 8332 5759
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org
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> 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
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> 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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> -----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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