Call me paranoid but Google does already know enough about me and my sites. I would be reluctant with Google Analytics. Rather expensive too (last time I looked at it), but it adds a fun element and does a pretty good job at showing patterns too. You might even want to look at Visitorville. They not only help you to streamline your page, but also do a great job in identifying vistor trends. Have a look at Clicktracks – they even have a free software nowadays.
It’s all about humans and patterns nowadays. Hits – especially pagehits and not visits – are 20th century stuff to impress suits to get a larger budget.
As somebody mentioned before, it’s not about hits anymore, it’s about conversions. However, you seem to have missed a paradigm shift.
#AWSTATS VS GOOGLE ANALYTICS UPGRADE#
However they charge you based on traffic, and once I crossed the first threshold (and needed to pay 600 EUR for the upgrade plus 80 EUR for the mandatory maintenance) it seems I reach more and more traffic faster and faster. They take a split approach with setting cookies and tracking IP’s. Webtrends does a pretty good job on differentiating between hits and visits. I’m using Webtrends for years, though they are charging an arm and a leg for their software (PLUS the latest release needed outrageously expensive hardware to run on ).
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