Alternative to Google Analytics

[Confetti_Wedding]

Hi from sunny Manchester!

I'm looking for recommendations for alternatives to GA. I'm specifically looking for something which won't sample data and will give us accurate numbers. Our site is pretty big, it receives 6 million+ visits and 50 million+ pageviews/year.

Any recommendations would be greatly received together with any good/bad experiences you've had with them.

Thanks in advance,

Brendan.

[Confetti_Wedding]

Because our site gets a pretty high level of visits, GA samples our data which can throw things out quite a bit.

http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=66084

Thanks,

[john4math]

http://piwik.org/ is open source and you install it on your own webserver.  I've never used it, but I've heard good things from a friend about it.  It's supposedly like Google Analytics, but you're sending and storing the data yourself.

I would assume since you control your own data, you would be able to choose not to use sampled data.

[AWCthreads]

Hey Brendan. What various signals do you get in your data that suggests it is inaccurate? Using GA is kinda like getting security information from the fox that is watching the hen house.

[zigojacko]

Woopra has been our preferred analytics solution for the past 18 months or so now. We were utilising real time analytics long before GA introduced it and we've been relatively happy with their platform and features.

Others worth checking out include:-

http://getclicky.com/

http://www.crazyegg.com/

http://haveamint.com/