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SlimStat - free web stats package
by Jason Clarke May 24th 2006 at 7:00AM
Back a couple of years ago, there was a really great (for its day) statistics package called ShortStat that was available for free for sites running on PHP / MySQL. ShortStat became extremely popular, and eventually evolved into a commercial statistics package called Mint. As such, development on ShortStat stopped. Luckily, Stephen Wettone also enjoyed using ShortStat and decided to build a statistics package based on it, which he called SlimStat. Even better, he decided to keep SlimStat free.
So if you're looking for a nice and quick but in-depth statistics package for your website, give SlimStat a look.
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Robert Wetzlmayr said 9:08AM on 5-24-2006
I really enjoy using SlimStat since ins early incarnations. It's immensely faster than ShortStat even at huge numbers of recorded visits due to proper database indices, and Stephen Wettone releases a beefed up version frequently.
The recorded information is rich and meaningful, referrer spam filters keep the crap outdoors, and there's even an interface for third party plugins: Don't miss some valuable extensions like SlimView charting (http://www.igirisu.f2s.com/index.php?entryid=8) and wet_slimpattern for SlimStat's integration into Textpattern-powered websites (http://awasteofwords.com/article/wetslimpattern-integrate-slimstat-with-textpattern).
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CarLBanks said 12:47PM on 5-24-2006
Thanks for this awesome link. I've been never liked the fact Mint was $30 per domain or even $30. So I have looked around for a free alternative. This one looks really nice and I look forward to testing it out.
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Dan said 10:04PM on 5-27-2006
Check out W3Counter. If Mint's what you like, I think you'll like this too, and it's free.
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