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Discussion on: What web analytics tools do you use?

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Ben Sinclair

I've used Piwik before (when it was called Piwik). It was alright.

For my job, I generally have to load things like Google Analytics, but that's not because it's my choice - it's what the client wants.

Depending on project, we get fed back information from everything from focus groups
to heatmaps, but I don't have any interaction with it myself.

The only analytics I've ever done on my own stuff is monitoring the server access logs. To be honest, I find most Google (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) cloud interfaces confusing, because they keep changing where all the options are or using the word "project" to mean 20 different things depending which page you're on.

For my own projects, I don't care beyond bandwidth limits. I don't have any interest in exploiting my users' data and don't tend to have anything exposed that gets more than a few users at a time anyway!