Shaun Inman's Mint quickly rose to the top of our list of web stats tracking tools as it offers a powerful, customizable interface and a rich plug-in architecture that has quite a following. After launching Mint v2 back in January of this year, Inman has been releasing minor .x version updates to address the usual bugs and other quirks, but a new Mint v2.12 release brings some minor new features and one big new pepper (that's Mint-speak for 'plug-in'): the Outbound Pepper. As its name suggests, Inman's new pepper tracks outbound links from your site, helping you to see where exactly your visitors surf next.
Other changes in this new version include some updates to the display and handling of Mint's advanced preferences, as well as a new 'Ignore IPs' advanced preference to help you keep track of just the traffic you want. There is also a new 'Found' tab in the Searches pepper that lists pages at your site and the keywords used to find those pages.
As usual with Mint updates, this new version is available free to all registered users. You can find out a lot more about Mint from Haveamint.com, with a demo installation for your to tinker with before buying. Licenses for Mint cost a mere $30/domain.
Mint is a powerful, extensible web statistics package from Shaun Inman, web designer extraordinaire. With a wide array of plug-ins that can even incorporate stats from other services like FeedBurner, Mint is a one stop, self-installable shop for virtually any and all stats you will ever have to view for your site. In fact, one of Mint's strengths is that it can be customized to scale down gracefully to a one-column view for users who prefer the option to view their stats on mobile devices. Even after getting an internet-rich iPhone, however, Richard Herrara doesn't want to have to chose between the default two-column view or the device-optimized view - so what's a web hacker to do? Why, hack one of Mint's files to auto-detect the iPhone browser and only display the one-column view for that particular device, of course! Head over to Herrara's site for the instructions on two simple edits you must make to Mint's head.php file, as well as a custom iPhone stylesheet to upload for some dual-mode desktop/iPhone Mint-y goodness.
Well, it looks like Xinu's been resurrected. The developer has published the source code under a creative commons license and listed a series of mirrors where you can check out the service. The developer suggests that the code isn't particularly pretty, but anyone with the necessary know how is welcome to help work out the bugs.
In the meantime, Xinu's still a nifty little tool for checking a whole slew of web statistics in one place. Among other things, you can find your Google PageRank, your Technorati Authority, how often pages from your site have been submitted to social bookmarking pages, and how many readers have subscribed to your site using Bloglines.
Of course, all of this is freely available data, but Xinu saves you the time and trouble of tracking down each statistic one by one.
Did you know that Google has indexed 18,800 pages for Download Squad? To be honest, neither did we. But that's the sort of information you can get from Xinu, a new web stats tracker.
Just type a URL into Xinu and sit back while it compiles data from all the usual suspects plus a few unusual ones. You'll get the site's Technorati, Alexa, and Google details. but Xinu also grabs data from Yahoo!, Windows Live Search, Lycos, Digg, Bloglines, Clipmarks, and a bunch of other services.
But Xinu doesn't stop there. It also gives you several rather useless statistics like the number of words and characters in a web site's name. Maybe they just wanted to have enough data to fill a whole page.
Update: As has been pointed out in the comments, it looks like the site has been suspended. We'll keep you posted if we hear that Xinu resurfaces.
We're big fans of web stats packages, and Shaun Inman's powerful and flexible Mint is definitely near the top of our list. While Mint and its various plugins can watch all manner of web stats and there are even widgets to check some stats from the comforts of your desktop, Tyler Hall decided to go one step further and has built a pepper (i.e. - a plugin for Mint) simply titled php-Growl that can send some Mint statistics to Growl, the Mac OS X system notification utility. While it can take some configuring (the comments at the Peppermint Tea post where we found this offer a good overview), this sounds like a handy way to keep an eye on stats without having to furiously refresh your Mint page or run yet another Dashboard widget.
Google has released its online analytics software to anyone that wants to use it to interact with their website.
Google Analytics lets users track visitors, identify navigational issues, track keywords, and where visitors are coming from. Analytics will also tie into your Google AdWords account and let you know how visitors found your site, where they came from, how they were referred, and measure your total AdWords campaign effectiveness.
Google also has a "Conversion University". A place where Analytics users can go to read up on marketing and content optimization tips from industry experts. Current new articles in the University include Increasing Conversions with Internal Search and Monitoring Visitor Conversion.
Google Analytics is simple to set up. Log in using your Google Account ID, and enter the domain you want to monitor first. Multiple domains can be added later. A code snippet has to be added to the end of all HTML pages that you wish to monitor. Google Analytics displays a nice dashboard with Executive, Conversion, Marketing, and Content summaries, as well as Marketing Optimization, and Content Optimization reports. I am currently testing it out, and so far so good. It is easily a welcome addition to your current tracking software.
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.
Shaun Inman has released Mint, a refreshing new web site statistics package that, if nothing else, is gogeous to look at. It costs $30 per site, which may be refreshingly cheap to some and alarmingly expensive to others, and requires PHP and MySQL to run on your server. Mint collects the data you'd expect, including unique visitors, most popular pages, browser stats, and referrers (for which it sports RSS feeds!), and comes with an API called Pepper which developers can use to extend Mint with new functionality. Shaun talks a bit about what's in Mint in a post on his blog.
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. 
Shaun Inman has released 
