This post is the fifth in a series discussing the effective use of AWStats alongside Google Analytics. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to my full feed RSS.
Let’s dive straight into AWStats. I’m going to assume you have AWStats operational on your web hosting account, and that you know how to access the […]

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Pere Tubert Juhé This post is the forth in a series discussing the effective use of AWStats alongside Google Analytics. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to my full feed RSS.
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Like any other stat packages, AWStats is only valuable when it gives you information you actually do something with. With every piece of […]

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This post is the third in a series discussing the effective use of AWStats alongside Google Analytics. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to my full feed RSS.

There’s a few simple ways to discover if your web host has provided AWStats for you as part of your hosting package. In this post I’ll […]

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This post is the second in a series discussing the effective use of AWStats alongside Google Analytics. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to my full feed RSS.
Evan, the first commenter on my previous post, gave me a virtual kick in the butt for getting too technical. So Evan, I hope this post […]

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This post is the first in a series discussing the effective use of AWStats alongside Google Analytics. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to my full feed RSS.

As long-time readers know, I see a lot of value in log file analyser stats packages like AWStats. Google Analytics gets all the attention these days; […]

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at the discrepancies in various site statistics reported by (i) Google Analytics, and (ii) AWStats. Many forums report that Google Analytics shows 30% of the visitor numbers and page views of AWStats, and the figures on my sites are more or less in line with this.
So the […]

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As well as the new tracker, Google have made a small but welcome change to the Analytics dashboard. Now, we can get easy visual comparisons of the following metrics:

Visits
Pageviews
Pages/ Visit
Average Time on Site
Bounce Rate
Percentage New Visits

Any two metrics can be viewed on the one graph, or a single metric can be viewed over two time […]

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Google AnalyticsThis morning I saw that the tracker code for Google Analytics had been updated to a new file, ga.js. The old file (urchin.js) is still available and Google says it will continue to function for at least another year.
The new tracker replicates all the functionality that was available in urchin.js but adds some much-needed […]

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Web analytics guru and good guy Hurol Inan has just emailed the latest edition of his newsletter ATTUNED. The lead article deals with segmentation of user data - what it is, how to do it, and some example to get you started. His workshop participants have confirmed:
… their frustrations stem from the struggle to gain […]

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While I had amazon.comopen for the link in today's previous post, I thought it was time I told the First Hit community about Hurol's new book.  Hurol Inan is First Hit's 'on-demand' Analytics Consultant, an internationally recognised expert in the web analytics and search analytics fields, and a long-term buddy from our Andersen Consulting (Accenture) […]

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