best web traffic software

[bowfine]

my company is on the market for a web analysis program that will track activity on the website and will report back with graphs and charts and all the other bells and whistles. Can anyone recommend a good program that is easy to understand.

Thanks,
Sneha

[Damien]

Webalizer or AWstats both have graphs and charts and they are OpenSource aswell.

[bowfine]

thanks, Is spending money on the more expensive ones (Webtrends, KeyLime's LimeLight) worth it or do they all give you the same info?

Sneha

[Damien]

Most of the stats programes take their data from the logs generated by the server and present that data in graphical format. However, you can get other scripts which you place SSI tags on each page you want monitored, these will give more detailed information on visits, how long they spend on each page etc.
A bit more work in it, but it's down to you want. Both of the opensource programes I mentioned are excellent quality.

If you really want to impress a client use AWstats, follow this link http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl
this is the demo, when you run your own you can choose with or without frames.

[Ptaz]

I got this working and its great, but I have one problem. If you have different logs how do you analyse them and view them??

This can only do one log at a time. I have tomcat, apache logs that need to be analysed. How possible is it to do this wit awstats?? where would you put the log info or run this different logs??

Please help.

Thanks.