[thelist] Multi-site traffic counter, Gold RSS

[Scott Wolpow]

What is the best way to track traffic at many sites.
Here is the case. My client has pages on many different sites. He wants to 
know which gets the most hits. In some cases he has over 100 on each site. 
The site holder will not give him logs. I know there is webtrends. I am 
looking for something less costly. Perhaps a good javascript or perl 
script.  I can host the monitoring server using msql.
Second I need a text feed of gold and metal prices. Every one I find is 
done as a image or I have to pay high fees.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Scott Wolpow