Comments on: Google Analytics vs Awstats vs Webalizer

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:02:42 +0000

Hi Damon,

That’s what I found works best, too; to use more than one statistical program. I use Woopra in addition to Google Analytics and WP Stats. I haven’t heard of the wassup WP plugin, so I’ll give that a look. Although I still have Awstats and Webalizer running, I find I don’t have time to check them anymore.

By: Damon Day

Damon Day — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:37:36 +0000

Hey Barbara,

I used google analytics by itself for a long time and didn’t know much difference. Then I downloaded the wassup WP plugin. Now I use them both together. I really like the specific details that wassup provides so I can see how various visitors actually are interacting with my blog and navigating through the pages. I use google analytics to check overall hits, Page views, time on site etc.
As a package they provide exactly what I am looking for.
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By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:15:08 +0000

I use google analytics just to make sure tat everything is ok.
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By: g1sh

g1sh — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:00:13 +0000

Yeah, the numbers are different. There are a 100 unique users in webalizer for 30 unique users in analytics. First I was thinking that webalizer was counting it wrong, but it appears that since it’s due to javascript blockers turning analytics off, webalizer should be the stat tool of choice + I do get more readers than I thought
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By: Roberto Salvatore

Roberto Salvatore — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:21:00 +0000

Awstat is complete, Google Analytics is more “lite”, but if you run a VPS or a small dedicated server and you turn on Awstat on your domains (you can do this also by Plesk), you’ll show a significative increase of CPU working. Google Analytics runs out of your server, so it doesn’t overloads your resources. But if you have tons of server resources, Awstat is better than Google Analytics!