Comments on: Radical Move: Paying for a Stats Package

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:21:39 +0000

I use mint myself. Sure its $30, but there are tons of plugins (called “peppers”), its uptodate all the time, and its real pretty.

If money is the option, you can try Slimstat (or, Wp-slimstat), which Mint is actually based on.

Not so pretty, and you might have to do a little light hacking to get it to work just right, but its totally free.

Cheers
t

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:45:51 +0000

Dan,
W3Counter is free but there’s no invisible counter.

Mark

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:23:57 +0000

Darren:

Fair point, although I have yet to really get a grasp on why Google Analytics is the most “conservative” of the stat services out there.

By: Darren Barefoot

Darren Barefoot — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:39:07 +0000

You’re dismissing Google Analytics because they report lower page view counts? That’s not particularly scientific–lower isn’t the same as ‘less accurate’.

In fact, it’s precisely why I rely on Google Analytics (both for myself and client work), because if we get good results from them, the results will look great on other stats packages.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:50:29 +0000

W3Counter is free, too, ya know, and has many more reports than PM.