Ask HN: Awstats or Google Analytics

6 points by medianama ↗ HN
Which tool do you use for stats/traffic analysis - awstats, Stat Counter, Google Analytics or some other?

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Google Analytics + Awstate/Webalizer + Quantcast
Both :)

Also look into Woopra which is really good ;D

I use Google Analytics + a Wordpress stats package to track RSS pulls etc.
I don't think you can use just one. A lot of people like myself block the analytics cookies. I have had problems with AWStats too -- recently some log entries have caused it to barf and quit parsing the file (they have no referrer or user agent string, and come from a site monitoring service that scans for vulnerbilities -- I may have to hack AWStats and submit a patch to fix that).