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Anyone know any good/cheap/free tools that can be used to track visitor behaviour on a web site? My hosting company provide good summary stats but I'd like to be able to see more detail about individual behaviour - how they found the site, what they looked at etc. etc. etc.

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If you can download the web log then you have a fair chance. Then stats software - webalizer for example.

You might even be able to control what goes into the log file, but this would depend on the host.

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Yup, can get the web log no probs. Current stats are generated by Webalizer and include totals for hits, pages, files etc with daily & hourly graphs, details of referrers, search strings, entry & exit pages. Great summary to see how the site's being used but not at the individual level - I'd really like to break it down somehting like :

IP address 1.2.3.4
referred by www.yd.com
entry page index.html
pages visited page1.html page2.html page3.html

IP address 2.3.4,5
referred by www.hand bag net.com

entry page fisticuffs.html
pages visited page4.html page5.html

Is that possible without spending zillions?
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If you can get te log files, you might find you can get finer analysis by changing webalizer setting or other s/w. Usually there is just too much info, hence the summaries.

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This is quite good
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Just an update on this if anyone else was interested - Alan's solution looks good but requires PHP & MySQL on your site & then pages/links need to be changed to PHP as well. My site isn't huge but that was a bit more faff than needed, so I dug around a bit more and found StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats which is another free service that just needs a bit of javascript whacking on the pages you want to track.

The 'free' version of statcounter only tracks the last 100 page loads but that's fine for my site - giving a much greater insight into visitor behaviour.
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Not sure if its free but I use Awstats - I prefer it to Webalizer
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You could also look at google analytics which has allsorts of pretty graphs and the like

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