After look­ing at the alter­na­tives and weigh­ing up the options, we finally decided to go with Urchin (ver­sion 5, the stand­alone edi­tion) for web site sta­tis­tics at work.

I’ve been set­ting up some of our clients over the last cou­ple of weeks and the more time I spend with it the more I like it. Every­one I’ve spo­ken to about it loves it too, as well as all the clients I’ve set it up for. Google must love it too, see­ing as they bought the company!

Admit­tedly, I have used Deep­metrix Live Stats in the past and loved that too. Had we gone that way, I’d prob­a­bly be singing it’s praises right now. Price point and inte­gra­tion with HSphere, the Con­trol Panel sys­tem we use, were the decid­ing factors.

Any­way, I’m hav­ing a lot of fun with it, play­ing with the cus­tom reports and try­ing to apply regex fil­ters to the log source files (lots of trial and error there, let me tell you). The pretty SVG graphs are a lot of fun too.

Appar­ently ver­sion 6 of Urchin, cur­rently only avail­able as a hosted solu­tion, will be avail­able in stand­alone form in the next cou­ple of months. Some­thing else to look for­ward to!