This article was written by PC Magazine's Troy Dreier. Consequently, it's a hosted service, so almost no work is performed on the clients' system.
Installation is quick and handled remotely.
Customers need to install a 322K Slurper on their Web server that gathers Web site transaction information, encrypts and compresses it, then sends it to digiMine's main system at scheduled times, usually in the slow, late-night hours. Report topics include the number of visitors to a site, the pages visited most often, the duration of visits, geographic breakdowns, and top referral URLs. These intuitive reports provide both the raw numbers for a given topic, as well as graphs. Viewers are limited to the reports available, but digiMine management says it adds new functionality about every six to eight weeks. Besides these basic usage graphs, digiMine offers other, more specific reports.