RE: Web Log Statistics

>We use WebTrends but are looking to move to HitList.  WebTrends is WAY too
>slow. ... We've tried to run it for a week and it crashes
>the machine.

Same here -- Todd reported the shortcomings very well.

WebTrends has a good feature list and is easy to set up and run, easy 
to customize. But for sizable logs, it's a performance hog, taking a 
loooong time to run and even if you are looking at just a few items, 
I understand that it still tears through the whooooole log and 
createst the whooooole database. Large runs tend to crash it. You 
need to give it tonnage of RAM.

Still -- after you get it customized as desired, you can devote a 
whole PC to it for overnight runs, posting results to a web page, and 
thereby get the job done. So the negatives are real but the product 
is still workable -- more so for smaller sites than for large; and 
more so for regular production runs than for ad hoc analysis.

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