Traffic stats are a subset of all possible analytics you can gather about a website. But even if all you want are traffic stats, a client-side analytics packag

Traffic stats are a subset of all possible analytics you can gather about a website. But even if all you want are traffic stats, a client-side analytics package is still a better way to gather that information. Google Analytics--and similar client-side analytics packages--supplanted server-side log analysis for a reason. It's much easier to implement, and gives you much more accurate counts of real people visiting your site, as opposed to spiders, bots, scripts, and other automated traffic that doesn't matter.