Log Twists Beyond the basics, each analyzer focuses its efforts in different areas. NetIntellect, for example, lets you create many different versions of the same reports by filtering data in various ways, rearranging fields and changing the way that graphs appear. Hit List takes things even further with a report writer tool that's highly sophisticated - more sophisticated, in fact, than most Webmasters have the time or patience to learn. WebTrends doesn't have the same flexibility as NetIntellect or Hit List, but it offers the most useful and interesting set of reports in its complete package, including such cool queries as most popular search engines, search strings and Web crawlers. The king of the report family is undoubtedly net.
Analysis offers some things that no other analyzer does.
For example, you can request a clickstream analysis, which determines the precise page sequences accessed most often by users. However, these reports are so costly to generate that they may be of little use to most companies. What's more, we abandoned our efforts to generate a full set of clickstream reports after our analysis workstation had worked on them for six hours and still wasn't finished. They can put reports in HTML format on your Web server, save them as local Microsoft Word files or mail them to users. Hit List, net.