[gtaSAGE-members] Commercial web analyzers

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Stephen Fulton wrote:

> Good afternoon all!
>
> It was a pleasant surprise to find this list, and nice to know there is
> something of a SAGE organization here in Toronto and area :)

At this moment there is only a list sorry :)  We've had plans to do more
but I guess everyone is as busy as I am :)

> Just some FYI about me, I have been working in the ISP industry for the
> last 7 years or so, and a Systems Administrator for the last 5.  I
> specialize in e-mail systems, but I've been known to appreciate the
> abstract such as BGP, as well.
>
> Anyway, one of our clients has requested a web statistics package that
> does a little more than the open source stuff we use.  More
> specifically, tracking users as they go visit a site, for a marketing
> department (which also means pretty graphics and other shiny objects to
> impress the VP).  The obvious product is Webtrends, but I'm open to
> others.  Any suggestions?

I am assuming here you are talking about potential clients visiting a site
rather than you intending to track the habits of local users.

How hard would it to extend existing tools?  Eg, Apache gives enough
information but it is not all shiny.  Some PHP or whatever might do the
trick as it could parse the data, make sense of it and produce pretty
reports.

Of course the time to do this has its own cost as wel all know.

Cheers,
	Rob

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