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I’ve been using Mint on my site for a while now. Mint is a statistics script, powered using javascript, php and mysql. It costs $30 USD. It provides basic stats, and you can then get even more stats by installing plugins called Peppers.

My favourite Peppers are:

• XXX Strong Mint
• Session Tracker
• Fresh View
• Outclicks

The license allows for only one domain for one installation of Mint. I haven’t been able to get it working on subdomains though.

The reasons why I decided to buy it was:

• I was curious – I wanted to try it for myself.
• I get to host it on my own host. So I don’t need to wait for things to load from some third party site.
• In the beginning when Google Analytics was released, it was really really slow, and I didn’t want to use it.
• It shows more detailed stats than say, Measure Map.
• You can set it to ignore hits from yourself, using cookies. I know I am my own site’s most frequent visitor, and I don’t need to track myself!

Because it uses javascript, it filters out all of the referrer/trackback spammers, bots and other crawlers. This is great because I’ve been getting a ton of trackback spam lately. For example, here’s a screenshot from my Awstats installation showing pages viewed:

It’s annoying to have to weed through that to look at page views from actual people.