Hey guys,

I don't like the statistic tool that ocmes with my host in control panel and was curious what are some good one's out there that you guys use or like and where can I find them?

THanks!

BBM

Two I have used are awstats and webalizer.

Google Analytics (which I think is just Urchin) isn't bad, but I find the reports to be lacking (particularly the referrer reports).

SmarterStats is my favorite. It's the only one that I've seen that shows referrers with querystrings, which is terrific when trying to see what people typed on a forum board about your site.

It takes some getting used to, but once you've got it figured out you'll wonder what you did without it.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

SmarterStats is my favorite. It's the only one that I've seen that shows referrers with querystrings, which is terrific when trying to see what people typed on a forum board about your site.

Nice! I've been getting a lot of referrals from a site called Somali Life; awstats just shows /forum/read.php though.

I find that webalizer is a very accurate statistics software, i also use google analytics which is excellent

can you please let me know what Statistic tool had been provided by your hosting company

then we can have a discussion on that more

I made a small statistics script that just shows referers which is good for forums as it shows exactly where the hits came from.

It is nowhere as detailed as some of the "big boy" stats script that will show you everything you need to know and some more things you didn't need to know.