Have a mint, if you can open the box Sep09 '05
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# (2 of 3): Matthom
3 hours, 54 minutes after the fact. (Fri 09 Sep 2005, 9:32 PM CST)
Dale, thanks for stopping by... Yes - I'm sure Dreamhost comes with and/or supports awstats... but there's just something so appealing about independent developers. I like the "candy" appeal of Mint.
# (3 of 3): Josh Street » joahua.com/blog
5 hours, 49 minutes after the fact. (Fri 09 Sep 2005, 11:27 PM CST)
AWstats is susceptible to referrer spam, so its statistics are a little more skewed. Of course, some would argue that Mint's JavaScript dependence makes it skewed, but from my own site's stats (heh, ironically attained by AWstats), I've found that slightly less than 1% of visitors actually browse with JavaScript disabled.
Mint is useful in that the JavaScript dependence means it's only getting real human figures, rather than other stuff. I don't think it needs to be the be-all and end-all of statistics solutions: personally, I'd use it in concert with raw log analysis software, such as Analog or AWstats. It's useful in its own way, as well as being very good looking and extensible (via the Pepper API that is an integral part of Mint)
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Well, I’ve been hacking around with Mint all day today, and have yet to get anything to work properly.
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# (1 of 3): Dale » bluetrait.com
3 hours, 17 minutes after the fact. (Fri 09 Sep 2005, 8:55 PM CST)
I find awstats to be more than enough for stats information. I would think your host would come with that.
It's free too.
Altough it does have a nice interface :)