Pointers for monitoring drupal 6 site needed, difference in server aw stats and the core "statistics" data

The IP addresses logged in by the Drupal 6 core "Statistics" module are开发者_如何学Python not being displayed by the AW statistics displayed by my hosting server (hostgator). I am not able to comprehend why and which statistics are more reliable ? Also I would request some light to be shed on the best practices to monitor a Drupal 6 website. Thanks for your help people.

the best free analytics packages are google analytics and piwik. i personally would go for piwik.

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Also worth checking out the goal tracking if thats what you need as i believe this is something thats missed out of the 1st link - maybe this was done before goal tracking was integrated

As for the mentions of funnels analysis, yes piwik might not do that yet, but its on the roadmap. Its worth factoring this into your plans - do you want to track specific the funnels of customers to conversion? e.g. the % of x people and the route they took to purchase?

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