Web stats & StatCounter.com

[timcadieux]

Hi folkz, my boss wants Stats from our websites but our Host is absolutly useless in this regard. Anyone know of a good ASP project to track links and downloads that can write to an mdb as i don't have access to FSO?

Also, i came across StatCounter.com, they offer a tonne of things for free, but i'm wary of inerting thier Javascript code onto my page and possibly giving them some kind of hidden access to my site?

Has anyone dealt with them?

 

[arst06d]

http://www.aspstats.com/

Standard version is free

 

[timcadieux]

While that looks pretty good, thx....I also really need something that can track links. The reason for this is we have an Image Server and i need to know how many of the pictures get looked at and/or downloaded.

 

[Sheco]

Surely your host will at least give you the raw log files? If so then you might be able to get by with a simple web log analyzer.

 

[tsdragon]

It isn't difficult at all to write your own link-tracking program. All it really has to do is take the real url as a parameter, update the counter for that url, then redirect to it. You could probably do the whole thing in a dozen or two lines of code. The biggest pain with link-tracking this way is that all of your pages have to be modified so that instead of linking directly to another page or image you link to your tracking program and pass the actual url as a parameter. It can be time consuming to update your site. There may also be issues with search engines.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[timcadieux]

thx folkz