Good web site analyzer programs for Windows are hard to find. I have yet to find the perfect one myself that didn’t cost an arm and a leg. However, the next best thing is WebLog Expoert Lite. This is the free little brother of WebLog Expert – but I think has enough features to keep you happy.
After installing, all you have to do is grab your log files from your hosting account in question. WebLog Expert Lite supports IIS and Apache logs, can automatically detect the log format and can read GZ and ZIP compressed logs. It will then crunch away at the numbers and export an HTML page for you to view to see how your web page is doing stats-wise. You get numbers, links, stats and graphs. It is a beautiful thing.
The free version however should be sufficient for most personal web sites and provides a nice overview of general traffic activity.
If you want to see what you are missing out on, you can see a comparison list of the professional, standard and lite versions of the program here:
http://www.weblogexpert.com/comparison.htm
It might not have all the bells and whistles down, but WebLog Expert Lite has enough to keep me happy.
