Site Statistics help you understand how much traffic your site is receiving. The software tracking your traffic ranks your pages by popularity, and even let's you know the most common words used by search engines to find your pages. It will also specify the number of individual user sessions your pages receive, so you can more accurately determine the number of different users accessing your site. We do not charge you to set up site statistics, though some programas that are available are available through license only (such as Web Trends Log Analyzer) and are not free. We suggest Urchin, which we bundle free with our server products. Urchin also comes packaged with the Freedom product. Everytime someone visits your web site, that information is entered into an "access" log which kept on your site until deleted. That log file is what web "stats" programs read to determine the traffic at your web site. It's quite important to keep tabs on your traffic, for there is no other way to know what pages on your site of interest, and which pages are not, which advertisements or banners work, and which ones do not, and which search engines are working for you, and which ones are not.
	Analog (Analog's web site) Analog is a very popular Web Log Analyzer that can be installed directly on a Virtual Private Server. Analog will analyze your web server logfiles in-place and then create HTML, text, or even e-mail reports of your web site traffic. Our Web Development Team has made Analog freely available for easy installation on all Virtual Private Servers.
	AWStats (AWSTATS' web site) AWStats is short for Advanced Web Statistics. It is a free tool that generates advanced Web server access statistics in a graphical format. This Web Log Analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible informations your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly.
	Urchin Web Statistics and Log Analysis Tool (web site) Designed to provide critical insight into your Web site's user activity, Urchin's sophisticated reporting and Web-based interface allow you to get the traffic data you need to optimize your site. Use Urchin to: Benchmark overall Web site success daily/weekly/monthly/yearly Assess the effectiveness of advertising/marketing campaigns Perform search engine optimization Evaluate link arrangements Locate and resolve errors Monitor your traffic and bandwidth Do comparative and historical data analysis Urchin's Reporting Features: Intuitive, in-depth reports Flexible date range functionality - you specify the exact time period for your reports Multilingual functionality - view reports in 10 languages, switchable on-the-fly Reports are fast loading From basic to highly detailed traffic metrics, Urchin reports on a wide spectrum of information that is indispensable to anyone interested in the design, marketing or hosting of a Web site. Urchin has a lot to recommend it, including the fact that it comes free with your virtual server!
	WebTrends Log Analyzer (web site) Configuring WebTrends Log Analyzer to work with your Virtual Private Server is simple. The directions below are based on version 3.0d of WebTrends, but they should apply to other versions of WebTrends, as well as Virtual WebTrends.
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