For sites with more traffic we recommend hourly (or daily) updates of the reports to reduce billing of additional resource usage. Reporting will be in real time by default - On low volume web sites, up to a few hundred visitors per day, we recommend real time reporting. We recommend Page Tagging however we do support either method running within the BitShop cloud. For this our preferred solution is Piwik. The client runs this javascript which reports various additional information back to server, including additional capabilities of the client which are not usually reported in the server log files.

Page Tagging: The newer method for analytics relies on 'page tagging' which uses a small javascript which you will need to add to every web page on your site (usually this is done in an include file, menu or footer, masterpage, etc.).For this our preferred solution is AWStats It also won't count anything cached, either by the user revisiting a page already cached on their local machine or through proxy servers caching. It also has some 'junk' data from hackers and search engines crawling your site - you likely dont care how often google indexes your site, you only care that they do. LogFiles: The classical method to gather this information is to process the log files from the server.We provide two different solutions which work in dramatically different ways to gather the raw data, the way each tool presents this data to you differs but it is the same information. Sales will want conversion information (what users convert from simply reading your site to 'the next step').

Marketing will want information on the keywords that potential customers are searching when they find your product / services. Analyzing the data about your web site visitors can help you improve your web site in many ways.

Awstats vs piwik