PHP visit tracking / analytics scripts

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I've seen several PHP scripts to be used as analytics software (they log hits and visitors to your website, and then draw you pretty charts and tables to tell you how your site is going). I happen to be needing one now, and it could be helpful for others if we made a list of that kind of scripts. I appreciate your help.

Note: I'm not talking about hosted services like StatCounter; I'm talking about PHP packages you can download, customize and put in your server.

hmm, I really really really wanted to try not so long ago one of the most famous, can't remember the name. It was hell, pure hell to install it. I don't know what kind of person wrote the documentation. Not for the faint or heart.

I prefer user friendly any given day: Shortstat, which you install in your server, and Mint.

not in your server: Pmetrics, which I use.

If it wasn't time-critical, I'd be tempted to write my own and just include() it. Logging IPs and user-agent into a database isn't hard, nor is graphing data. If you have a good PHP reference and IDE, that's the most user-friendly way of all.

I fully agree with you (I would even leave out the IDE). But I thought "why do it myself if other people have already done it, and better than I would".

I tried SlimStat, the faster and more complete version of Shortstat, and I must say it's pretty good. I used Elitestats before. It uses simple text files to store data, instead of SQL (which is an advantage if you have a limited hosting) and it's very fast and light, but a bit buggy and not too pretty.

EDIT:
SlimStat: http://wettone.com/code/slimstat
EliteStats: ? (still don't find it)

Hi Stellian, Slimstat is a nice find!