Google Analytic Stats On Your Desktop - Polaris

Polaris is a desktop adobe Air application that brings Google Analytics statistics into your desktop. They have a free edition which you can only use to monitor one site. The paid version can be taken for $15/year which support multiple sites.

http://www.desktop-reporting.com/polaris.html

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Best Alternatives for Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a good traffic analytic tool that also integrate with Google's other products like Adsense. But Google Analytics is not a complete solution when it comes to getting exact referrer urls. So here is the list I recommend to replace Google Analytics.

Awstats
If you are using cPanel you will probably get this tool freely which offer wealth of information about your site visitors. The best tool I ever seen.

http://awstats.sourceforge.net

StatCounter
This tool has given me a reliable service for nearly 2 years now. but they have a log size restrictions for free users.

http://www.statcounter.com

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Google Analytics cannot see the full url of referrer

It's too bad that by using a tool like Google Analytics you cannot get the full url of referrer. It only gives the main url.
That means if you really get a hit from www.example.com/page.html you will only see the www.example.com in your stat. They should fix this or I don't see any point of using Google Analytics.
If you are using cPanel there is a tool called Awstats, you can find lot of information about the site traffic using that tool, maybe the best guide for a site.

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