Free tools to analyse web traffic

[deeptikorwar]

Hi,

Are there any good free tools to analyse the internal website traffic that has been deployed for the online help.

Thanks,
Deepti

[RamonS]

The only tool that comes to mind is Google Analytics if you want live reports. If you can live with not up to the second updated reports you can use any one of the many log file analyzers. I can give you a list of tools I used in the past when you tell me which web server you use.

[deeptikorwar]

Thank you Ramon.

I got the server details from the dev. Here you go:

OS = Windows 2008 R2 Standard
Web server = Microsoft IIS Server 7

Thanks,
Deepti

[RamonS]

For IIS you can use

• Funnel - http://funnel-web-analyzer-free.software.informer.com/
• WebLog Expert Lite - http://www.weblogexpert.com/lite.htm

Grab the log file and have the tools analyze it. They each present the results a bit differently. I think you can also hook them into the server directly and retrieve the log that way. I went the offline route for the analysis I had to do. Both tools are free to use, I did not look into paid products because my budget for any project is 0$.
As mentioned before, you can also use Google Analytics, but IIRC you have to add something to each page in the application to pass on the user data. It will give you tons of reports that can be exported and processed further.

[deeptikorwar]

Thanks a lot Ramon. I will try to get the log files from dev.

Another question, can Google Analytics be used for an internal website. I mean the helptext can be only accessed by users within the internal network.

Thanks,
Deepti

[RamonS]

I'm tending to say 'No', but I really do not know. We have it running on a public site only. You can get more info right from the source: https://www.google.com/analytics/features/