hebig.org/blog
Personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

I've been using Google Analytics for a short while, but then realized that it loads way to much JS code into your browser, records your visits in a way too detailed manner and that it hides the interesting parts of the analysis beneath a thick cloud of marketing speak and stupid little charts - including a pie chart that plots two (!) values.

Enter Stephen Wettone's SlimStat: a PHP script that sits on your server and that gets called via a PHP include in your pages; slick, fast, realtime, and with a no-frills interface that let's you

filter by anything and everything, and combine criteria in any way you choose.

Seeing, for example, the pleasant fact that not a single reader that came here yesterday from spreeblick.de did use Internet Explorer requires just a few clicks. The screenshots give you a pretty good idea on these drill-down features. Also see Reducing SlimStat's database size. In use here for two weeks now and recommended.