[thelist] Best Statistics Server

[Ed]

> Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

> If all you need are simple aggregated usage figures, WebTrends
> will do the job fine.
>
> However, there is a limit to the usefulness of such simple info -
> a more useful approach is record site events against users and
> correlate them against pre-specified scenarios, so you can
> identify problems with the site's design and have improved angles
> of attack.

> The reason for asking which CMS you were running btw is that some
> (Vignette for one) gives you this as part of the product set.

Thanks but I would certainly not buy a CMS system and then fight with it's
own reporting schema.
I think stats and reporting is a wide enough field with enough complexities
that you should be able to apply a specialized package to it to give you
what you need.