About Weblog’s Features

WebLog Experts is a downloadable web analytics tool that provides visitor activity statistics, information about referring pages and search engines, browsers and operating systems in both table and chart HTML reports. It offers filters for deeper analysis such as information about visitors who came from a particular URL or who accessed a defined page.

sample report from weblog's analytics breaking it down into multiple graphical metrics

Reports can be generated to display general statistics and activity statistics by hours of the day, daily, days of the week, and by weeks and months. It provides statistics for pages, images, files, directories, view time, queries, entry and exit pages, visitor paths, and bounces. It also tells you about your visitors’ hosts and top-level domains, and geographical locations. Referring sites are included in the reports from referring sites, URLs, search engines, and keywords and search phrases.

summary web analytics report produced by weblog

There is a Lite, or freeware, version of WebLog that offers limited information. The Standard version is available for $74.95, the Professional version for $124.95. The Professional version features email and PDF report capability, a built-in scheduler, increased number of charts, tables, and comparison charts and customizable charts and tables. The Standard version does not include those features or pages and queries, pages per visitor, view time, time spent onsite or bounces.

With the limited statistics offered with the Standard version, there appear to be free analytics that may be superior. They do offer a free download trial period so you can make that determination before you purchase. Since the program runs from your own server, you own the data collected so you’ll know when and how it is being used, unlike analytics from Google or Yahoo.