Webalizer or Awstats?

[kflo01]

I am with Hostgator and they use both Webalizer and Awstats when it comes to viewing your traffic details. Which one if either is considered me industry standard or more reliable. I ask this because at least for me they both show different numbers as far as page views, visit, etc. On top of that I am running the statpress plugin for wordpress and that gives me even different numbers.
So I ask what should I use? Which is better or more accurate?

Thanks in Advance

 

[Linda Buquet]

No web stats will ever match up and it's maddening. They handles cookies, spiders and other things differently which skus the numbers. I'm not sure if there is a RIGHT one or which one it is.

I look at both to just get a general consensus of whether things are moving up or down. I prefer the Awstats look and interface but for me Webalizer's numbers typically, but not always are higher.

 

[kflo01]

Thanks for the reply. What should I be looking at in order of importance?

Unique Visitors
Visits
Pages
Hits

I guess my next question is going to be hard to answer what is considered a heavy traffic site or good amount of traffic, etc

Right now after about 3 and a half weeks I am averaging about 35 uniqes a day,

 

[James Spinosa]

I feel that AWStats provides a more accurate view of your unique visitors, but it also includes spiders. Typically I find that if I add up my Google Analytics visitors + AWstats unique visitors and average them, that I will have a pretty good idea of where I stand since GA misses non-javascript users.

 

[smallsleek]

I prefer google analytic. I don't trust webalizer and Awstat. I have some website that I don't visit and they have like 5 pages on google. I see like 8 visits a day on those site. I don't even visit those site. How reliable is Awstat? But google analytics shows me ZERO visiit.

 

[creedo]

I would also go for Awstats because it gives me the right details and what I need.
Traffic tracking is hard work and you need all the details for making your site work for you

 

[nakedalien]

I've only ever used Awstats and I've been quite happy with them.