Other than Omniture SiteCatalyst, WebTrends, Coremetrics, HBX, and Google Analytics, there are other possible web analytics tools to consider for your web analytics needs. And they are free!
If you're starting a blog or site for your company, but don't have that money to buy enterprise solution, you're most likely to use Google Analytics because that is like the standard for free web analytics tool now a days (because it is well known).
Check out the following list of applications, some of them could be a great tool to supplement your current web analytics application.
Woopra
Woopra is based on Java, and has both desktop and web service to monitor the metrics. Woopra has a unique feature that allows you to chat with your user and acquire non-numerical information.
*image from woopra.com
Other selling points of Woopra is Live Tracking, Rich User Interface, "Real-Time Analytics", "Lightning Quick Data Drilldown", "Visitor and Member Tagging", "API" and "Real Time Notifications".
Currently Woopra is in close private Beta.
For more info go to Woopra.com
Piwik
Piwik is an open-source web analytics application based on PHP and MySQL. What is great about Piwik, it has a "plugins" mechanism that allows various extension and customization. If you're a developer, you could probably make one your self.
What is good for some people or business is that Piwik's data is stored in your server/database. So you own the data. The user interface is customizable, which is probably something similar to Google Analytics dashboard. Piwik fans, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
For more info go to Piwik.org.
Yahoo! Analytics
Did you know Yahoo! had an analytics application?? Well, Yahoo! acquired IndexTools, and that became Yahoo! Web Analytics. It is an enterprise site analytics tools that provides data in real-time, with powerful tools and dashboards.
4Q Iperceptions
Big credit to @Avinash, 4Q is used by my site, and it has given me a lot of insights that are qualitative. It answers the "Why" part of your web analytics questions. It is an awesome tool gather your user feed back and their satisfaction with your site.
Check out my article about 4Q: Results from 4Q Iperceptions Survey | Measuring User Satisfaction
FireStats
FireStats is free for non-commercial usage, and FireStats costs 25$ per installation for commercial usage.
What I like about FireStats is that it is very simple. And visibility on your source agents and IP is a pretty nice feature. Apparently FireStats got great APIs so if you're a hands-on person, definitely might want to try it out.
Snoop
Snoop is a desktop based application that runs both on Mac and PC. Tagging is done in a similar fashion to Google Analytics, pretty simple and straight forward. Great feature of Snoot is the "Name Tags" to easily identify exactly who your visitors are. It works by associating information to username, e-mail, account ID, etc.
Other great web analytics tools
MochiBot: It is a free analytics tool designed for Flash assets. For those flash heavy sites, it might be a good choice to try MochiBot by simply adding few lines of ActionScript code in the .FLA files.
JAWStats: Server-based web analytics application that runs with AWStats. If you're happy with AWStats, then you'll probably like JAWStats. Benefits of JAWStats are easy installation and rollback, and doesn't interfere with AWStats. It has an easy dashboard manipulation.
A lot of analyst do run several web analytics applications. Example, for me, I run Google Analytics and 4Q Iperceptions. You definitely want to understand and research the benefits of each applications' features before implementing everything (unless you're obsessed with installing web analytics).
Make sure that you understand what data you need and the pros and cons of each web analytics system, even Google Analytics.
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