Reviewer, 2009-05-28 09:06:00

An unparalleled website statistics package for professional webmasters. In addition to standard log analyzer features, AlterWind introduces unique features for professional SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and advertising campaign tracking.

Features: Web site ranking and search engine optimization is increasingly getting important. Competition is becoming intense in this space. What that means is that webmasters need more sophisticated tools to determine where they stand. Most current tools are for hobbyists and amateurs and has limited features and customization possible. Built for professionals this package has everything that a good log analyzer must have. The package is capable of processing multiple log files in a range of standard as well as customized formats. Compressed logs also can be handled and you can operate from the command line too.

Report look and feel can be customized. Contents are customized by filtering data and sorting the retrieved data the way you want. Filters available are quite a few and data can be sorted on these data fields. These and other standard log processing and report building features alone would make it an excellent web statistics system. While other web statistics system normally use a simple list of URL masks to show the search engines from which your visitors arrive, Alterwind provides a database of more than 430 search engines and more than 120 on-line catalogs from all over the world. Comprehensive reports then can be built about which search engine is providing you with traffic. Keywords and phrases that have been used to find your site. You get additional information such as the number of search results on the page where your visitor came from. Sorting the result by country or language or even the result of promo campaigns or PPC and banner ad results. It can even reveal fake referrers.

Overall: An effective log analyzer, it can even tell you results of ad campaigns.