Web Stats

In an effort to get as much as I can off of google services, I’ve been spending some time off and on on looking for a decent self hosted web statistics tool that won’t break the bank. I may eventually move to a paid tool, but for now, my web stats are more just a curiosity. I had been using AWStats, but it’s fairly out of date (seems to only have had maintenance patches over the last several years), and since it’s server log based, not terribly accurate. To that end, I ran across Piwik the other day. It has a lot of nice features, and most importantly, doesn’t seem to significantly slow down the loading of my pages (it’s a Javascript based solution, but it’s hosted on the same server I host a lot of my web sites on).