Free Web Stats
Here’s a new freebie traffic stats program I’m trying:
Web Stats
General: Unique Visitors, Sessions, Page Views, Hourly and Weekday Distribution, Robot Page Views, Average Pview/Visitor, Average UVisitor/Day, Average PView/Day, Average UVisitor/Hour, Average PView/Hour
Referrers: Grouped by domain with full URLS, search engine keywords and more…
Countries: Determined using direct IP to country conversion instead of inaccurate inverse lookup method
Pages: Individual page hits and average time spent on each page
Robots: Hits of a certain page by a certain Robot
Browsers: Most known browsers with full user-agent strings
See the demo here:
It’s php / mysql and wow! very feature rich and slick to set up.
Still testing this but so far so good. I’m pretty impressed!
Timothy Lee:
February 21st, 2005 at 11:06 pm
TraceWatch is very impressive. I particularly like that it includes path analysis.
I saw that TraceWatch is free, but I don’t understand the business model. Usually the light version is free and there’s a fee for the premium model. So, what’s the catch?
Terry:
February 22nd, 2005 at 12:32 am
Your comment prompted me to email the script creator and ask for feedback.
Maybe he’ll reply?
Otherwise, I can’t see a catch. Sometimes script creators are trying to build a portfolio or branding. But this is WOW! and does make one wonder - why free?
cafeRg:
February 22nd, 2005 at 6:15 am
This one is pretty good too …the newest version includes ftp amd mail
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Terry:
February 22nd, 2005 at 11:15 pm
I did get an email from Arash (the program’s creator) and he told me this is not a business piece for him, it’s more a hobby. He may in the future provide an opportunity for donations or put up some advertising.
Thanks Arash!
Dauf:
March 18th, 2005 at 12:41 am
I tried TraceWatch, but GoDaddy does not allow locked tables on its servers for some reason
Otherwise, it would be the best free web stats program I’ve seen.
Terry:
March 18th, 2005 at 2:21 am
Dauf I wonder if you left feedback at TraceWatch http://www.tracewatch.com/feedback/ if he would have a workaround for this? I can’t remember the program, but I recall another script having problems on a host that did not allow locked tables and they were able to come up with a solution (it was editing the script in some way). Sorry I don’t have specifics.
My update on TraceWatch is that it’s going strong, very happy with it, but I still only have it on one site so far.
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Rafal:
January 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Hi. Have you managed to run TraceWatch with WordPress? I’m trying to put the proper code to footer.php or header.php. If I do so then the page reloads a few times and then is messed up completely. I have no problems with my non-blog pages. Any thoughts?
Terry:
January 2nd, 2006 at 7:16 pm
hmmm no I haven’t tried adding it to wordpress Rafal. Where are you adding the code on those files?
Some ideas:
On the main WP index.php file (not the template file), add the php include on the very first list line
Or
On the header.php file in the template, add it after the <body> tag.
Let me know how you make out ;).
Rafal:
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:45 am
I added that php include in the index.php and OH MY GOD! It works
I spent like 5 hours yesterday fidling with the code in every way possible but missed that. THANK YOU. I’ll post this solution at Wordpress support forums if you don’t mind.
Magma:
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:12 am
Well, I’m using twatch for a long time on one of my 2 websites and now on my wordpress blog to. I put the code in the footer of the theme I’m using just before the “” and it works perfect.
Magma:
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:14 am
Hmmm, just before the php do_action(’wp_footer’); that is…
Rafal:
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:49 am
Magma - i tried that but had problems with it. Be sure to check if your blog loads in Opera as my blog was all messed up with that browser.
Rafal:
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:16 am
It’s me again - oh, and check if you use the newest version of Wordpress. I’ve read that all versions prior to 1.5.2 were insecure due to that $GLOBALS thing but worked normally with TraceWatch.
Magma:
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:29 pm
I’m using Wordpress 2.0 now (before that 1.5.2) and just installed Opera 8.5 to test my site (www.venezolanda.nl is in dutch). It seems everything is working fine ? Maybe your serversettings are different? I don’t know…. If even use it in folderblog (the gallery I use for my site) and even there without problems. Strange…
Terry:
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:40 pm
I’m late on the convo it seems but Woohoo Rafal! Happy that it worked out for you. And feel free to post the info on wp support.
Rafal:
January 4th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Magma - you’re probably right. It seems to be all about the server settings. But still, there were a few people at Wordpress forums having the same problem as me.
dave:
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Ok - I must be dense - I’m just not getting this. I’ve tried placing the code in the wp/index.php file on the first line. No luck. I tried placing it everywhere - in the header.php file in the footer.php file. What am I missing? Can you post exactly what code you are using and what file. It would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
Terry:
February 24th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Magma:
March 2nd, 2006 at 9:28 am
Well, everything WAS fine untill yesterday. Now TWATCH doesn’t count visitors on my WP site, other sites works fine. What changed yesterday? My ISP installed Zend…. I don’t know IF this is the problem but I think it is…
Terry:
March 2nd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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