I've used analog, awstats, mint, analytics, and crazyegg in the past.
Nothing so far has been perfect, but in general, Analytics has been my
favorite for most applications.

* Setup is bog-simple
* It does pretty exactly what I want
* It's free
* Their privacy policy is sane.

The only real annoyance with it has been local development -- when
your machine tries to go out to the urchin but can't because you're
running on localhost, your browser looks a little funny. Also, there's
a little bit of overhead for each page hit.

Mint is a bit limited, but not too bad if you want simple stuff.
Analog is pure crap. Awstats is better, but nothing to write home
about.

Crazyegg is a neat one -- it generates really neat heat maps and
confetti maps of peoples' clicks on your web pages. If you want to see
how your pages actually perform with real users, the visuals it
generates are *well* worth the small amount of money it costs.

Cheers!
-Nate

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Chad Fennell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Library Code People:
>
> 1 - What do you use for your web statistics package?  Are you happy with it?
> Pros/Cons?
>
> 2 - What do you wish you used or had access to?
>
> 3 - Opinions on Specific Projects:
>
> 3.1 Piwiki/Mint
>
> Piwik and Mint both seem pretty interesting to me because they solve some of
> the problems of "traditional" log file analysis (see
> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the-limitations-of#comments), while of
> course introducing their own set of problems:  given their reliance on a
> RDBMS to store each page load, there are some obvious scaling concerns for
> very high traffic sites, for example.
>
> I wonder if anyone here has put either of these or similar systems to the
> test on high traffic (define in your own terms) sites.
>
> 3.2 Google Analytics and/or Urchin
>
> Some libraries have incorporated Google Analytics into their privacy
> policies:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=google+analytics+libraries+privacy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a .
>
> So, anyone here passionate one way or the other?  Other Pros/Cons?
>
> Of course, favorite resources, questions I should be asking and the like are
> welcomed and appreciated as well :).
>
> In advance:  thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> -Chad
>