Statistics - how to analyse them?

[CarolineH]

I'm bringing this thread from another post

Your website is not monitored by Google Analytics.

My site is not monitored by Google Analytics because I host with Yahoo Small Business and I download all the log statistics for my site. (Could this be a mistake?)
At the moment I use a tool called Weblog Expert to analyse my results, which I find a bit clunky.

Can anybody comment on other tools that they use?

[la vache!]

You can use GA as well as the webhost stats, you just need to set it up by adding some code to every page of your website. With GA you can also set up goals so you can see exactly what phrases people use on search engines for every enquiry generated via your site.

[CSE]

No it is not a mistake, I made the comment, but seeing this post maybe I should have also asked if you use any other sort of statistical gathering programme? I just assumed that everyone could use Google.
Analysis can be good to view, but sometimes one can get bogged down in the detail…or at least I have done. I regret that.