I need to Track Unique Visitor count in my web application. I would really like to use Google Analytics but due to the Load limitations that google imposes I will not be able to use them. I am expecting WAY over 10,000 requests a day. This is the limitation that Google web analytics API imposes. Is there another company that has the same features as google analytics that is paid or free?
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There definitely are.
Here are two open source and free solutions that are very polished:
Piwik - Designed as a direct competitor to Google Analytics (it looks just as nice) that you host on your own servers
Michael La Voie
2009-10-09 01:16:09
I took a look at Piwik. Can Piwik filter visits from a robot and search engines?
Luke101
2009-10-09 01:29:12
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the 10,000 request apply to the Data API, not to the actual data collection.
Like you can have an unlimited number of users seeing your website. On the other hand if you use the API to extract data from their database, you can do 10k request a day only.
check this link for more details
RageZ
2009-10-09 01:17:16
Yes..I will be downloading tracking information into my own database and it will contain over 10,000 pages. I must get this information daily for every page.
Luke101
2009-10-09 01:24:51
I see, do you need a javascript based solution or a log parsing tool would be ok ?
RageZ
2009-10-09 01:28:51
I can use eiter as long as it has an api were i can download statistics in my own database.
Luke101
2009-10-09 02:08:34
I just need something similar to google analytics with similar features. But I must have an api so I can programmatically pull the information
Luke101
2009-10-09 03:51:56
Yes..I have already spoken to omniture and they said they will charge me $1000/month for the features I need. I can't afford that. I also talked to visistat, they are much cheaper but they don't have a mature API.
Luke101
2009-10-09 01:26:25
Wow, yeah they're not cheap but the stuff you get out of them is actually pretty good. I work for a corporate so i never knew they cost that much. Insane! For that price you could write one in a couple of weeks/months. :)
griegs
2009-10-09 01:38:13
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The biggest, most obvious, most usual alternative is to simply do it yourself. Your webserver needs to log requests for security etc. anyway, so it's not a big deal to run something like webalizer on those logs. You won't get the quick, easy access to advanced information like paths users take through the site, btu that can be determined if you care enough. You do gain one huge benefit though: privacy of your own data.
Lee B
2009-10-09 01:39:29