I have used WebTrends for 2 years - its a great product, easy to use and
a wealth of info presented in a trendy looking format. Customers are
certainly impressed. One of the nicest parts is it can generate the
reports as MS Word documents and e-mail them to your client - all
automated of course.
On the downside its not cheap and has a large overhead on resources when
running. I use it on a standalone Win95 box, collecting log files from
our ISP. Beware it won't generate Office2000 word reports on a Win95 box
(apparently win98 is OK)
I have only recently started using Analog, though our ISP runs it as
default. The problem I had was I couldn't customise it as it belongs to
the ISP. Now we are running our own Apache/Linux server for some of our
clients. Analog offers a nice simple way of providing stats quickly,
directly on the server. However, if a client required more detailed
reports, I will use WT. Although WT is available for the server, I feel
it is too much overhead (and too expensive!)
Best regards, Brian
> Brian,
>
> >I don't want to sound negative about Analog - its great as a general
> >guide to what going on. But surely if you want detailed analysis for
> >Marketers you need a more detailed(?) product i.e. WebTrends??
>
> That's what I was considering a few mails back, but I'm not quite
> sure about the actual accuracy of WebTrends vs. Analog. Seems to me
> there's a whole lot of compromises behind WebTrends, apart from the
> fact that it looks on "Sessions" rather than simple "File requests"
> (like Analog).
>
> I would be very much interested in any online comparative studies of
> the different tools available (not forgetting the fact that Analog is
> absolutely free of charge (do we ever thank you enough, Stephen?))... Or
> just a simple summary of the differences, so that I can convince my
> marketing-department once and for all that I not only opted for the
> cheapest solution when choosing Analog, but also the most honest (?).
>
> Regards,
> Christian
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