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Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in the trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insiders perspective of the challenges and opportunities that Web Analytics presents to each person in your organization that touches the web.

Beyond the fancy charts and deep insights that set some analytics programs apart from others, there are three distinct differences among them that every enterprise should consider. Those differences are based on where the software resides. And, in the end, you may find that using multiple tools can give you the best of all worlds.

From analyzing your RSS feed to counting page views to visual representations of where your visitors are clicking, there is no shortage of companies looking to help you better understand your web site’s traffic. In our latest “toolbox” installment, we analyze (pun intended) the wide variety of applications and tools available for keeping tabs on how your sites, feeds, blogs, emails, or even your intranet is performing.

phpMyVisites is web statistics software. It is also often called web analytics. phpMyVisites is open source and free.

Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user. The log file is a flat file containing technical information about requests for files on the server. Log file analysis tools merely assemble them in a conjecture-based format aimed at providing insight into user behavior. In the commentary below, I will explain why the nature of the web, the HTTP Protocol, the browser, and human behavior make it impossible to derive meaningful usability data from server logs.

Computer-assisted text analysis is an extremely valuable tool for identifying trends in news coverage, political texts, and other documents. Unfortunately, the tools available to conduct text analysis are still quite limited.

Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements.

ScholarlyStats has been developed to provide information professionals with a single point of access to their vendor usage statistics. Providing faster access to consolidated data, it can help you to analyse usage of your online content more easily and more effectively.