In an article published this week, Search Engine Watch gives a nice overview of alternative website analytics solutions to using Google Analytics.
While Google Analytics has its own set of merits, there are drawbacks. Many people don’t want to continue to feed Google more data – and this trend is growing.
The solutions are comprised of Hosted Solutions (hosted somewhere else for you) and Self-Hosted Solutions (hosted by you).
Alternatives mentioned:
- Google ~ http://google.com/analytics
- Webtrends ~ http://webtrends.com/
- Adobe ~ http://www.omniture.com/
- Mint ~ http://getamint.com/
- Piwik ~ http://piwik.org/
- Urchin ~ http://google.com/urchin
Here is a link to the article.