Good website visitor stats software?

[Business Brian]

I've been just a little bit lazy with my site stats - for the most part I'll use Webalizer as a basic guide, but where Awstats is available, I'll tend to use that more.
 
 However, I think it's now high time that I looked for a more in-depth - and *reliable* stats package, that will provide excellent tracking stats, demographic info, and especially trace links in and searches from search engines accurately.
 
 I don;t mind at all paying for such a service - but I need to get a good idea of what's actually out there.
 
 I did use Superstats at one time - excellent tracking, but rather expensive for what you got - $25 per month for less than 50,000 page views, which is far too little - I need to be able to track in the region of a million plus pageviews.
 
 Any suggestions welcome.

[paulhiles]

I recently had a two week free trial of the click-metrix statistics package, and I must say I was pretty impressed. The information from search engine referrals, PPC click throughs and visitors clickpaths was all very impressive.
 
Only snag was the price.. they claimed I could have it for just £11.00 a month, but I think to get the full benefit, you'd need to be spending nearer £40, which is a bit steep. Nevertheless, I would recommend anybody to take advantage of the free trial offer.. it was very easy to implement, and just as easy to remove.

[Business Brian]

Ah, poop - it's when they talk about pageviews that kills it - it means they are useless for forums, which tend to incur rather large page view number.

[Melos]

I use statcounter for my counter/stats tool.  Its free - which is what is very attractive to me.

I think its pretty good, though I don't have any experience with any paid services.  it gives a lot of info about visitor paths, length of stay, search engine searches, etc.

[ninikins]

I've used statcounter in the past too. It does give a lot of info and check it out if you haven't already.

[Slashmire]

Well, I never looked at stats program either, so these mentions are quite good; statscounter looks pretty interesting.

[OneofaKind]

I've just had a look at statcounter and I think I'll give it a try.

[solar]

I have bravenet for my counters...
sitemaps from google and for my blogs blogflux...
plus my webhosting program shows me stats as well...

i don't need tons of stats, just to get a picture of whats going on. that may change eventually, but i'm not there yet.

[solar]

i gave stats counter a go on a new website...wow...love it. They give you so much more information then others...after using others...i have to say i'm thrilled to have tried the other...statscounter gives you entry/exit, activity, where from, visitor length, paths, etc...love it. they are who i'm switching to on most my sites.

[taiarain]

I'm kinda lazy about it and just use the stats my host provides.

Taia

[Melos]

I always liked statcounter because it tells you so much about where your visitors came from and what search engine keywords they used to find you.  It really helps you tweak your SEO and your other marketing methods too.