Okay, now I’ve seen everything.
Designer Shaun Inman has created a webstats package called Mint, which sells (yes, I know) for $30.
What does it do? Well according to the “demo movie”, it shows the same information you can get for free from awstats, webalizer or several others, but in Mint the pages are green and prettier. And require DHTML support. And don’t work in Internet Explorer.
Oh, and from what I can tell, it doesn’t track the server logs like most stats packages – instead, it appears that you need to add tracking code to every page on your site instead. Using JavaScript, of course. So visitors without JavaScript support (eg. lynx, JAWS, curl) won’t appear in your stats. Nor will visitors who’ve chosen to disable JavaScript (as many do).
This isn’t a personal attack, and apologies to Shaun if he reads this, but I’m struggling to understand several of these decisions. I think I’ll stick with awstats.
i was wondering about this me’self.
i’ve much respect for mr inman, his css knowledge is spot on.
BUT SURELY!, all this can be done server side?
maybe me and you oughta put something together…
Sounds like a rather large undertaking. If Mint had been released under an Open Source / Free Software license then we could just implement a server-side method of logging hits, but as it’s commercial software we’d have to start from scratch…
Great idea, but not enough spare time, unfortunately…