What it doesn’t do

AXS does not analyze your standard web server logs — instead, it builds its own log based on the traffic it detects from the HTML snippets you’ve pasted into your HTML pages. Traffic analyzers that use standard server logs are much more efficient than AXS.

AXS is pretty inefficient. It is suitable for low-traffic sites receiving a few hundred hits per day (if logs are stored for months), or sites receiving a few thousand hits per day (if logs are stored for days). For high-traffic sites, or for cases where you want to analyze years’ worth of data at once, AXS is not the right tool for the job.

AXS resides entirely on your server, unlike common remotely-hosted trackers. This means you need to be able to install and maintain a CGI script. You need to be hosted on a CGI-capable web server.

AXS does not set cookies to track your visitors. Thus, it can only count raw page views — it cannot track unique visitors, repeat visitors, number of pages viewed per visitor, or neat things like that.

The only downside to phpOpenTracker is that in order to get the best reports I’ll need to be doing some PHP coding of my own… nm. I’ve already done most of the hard work when I wrote CrashNet.