I found this cool site
StatCounter - Free Invisible Web Tracker, Hit Counter and Web Stats (http://statcounter.com/)
you install invisible code on you each of your pages and then you have a web site you can log into to get the stats ... simple and cool.. for those who don't want to use google analytics or figure out lion server logs..

its free for basic package or pricing starts at $4 / month.. for more pro
you do not need to know terminal or be a webmaster to install on your site..
i did it in 4mins on my site..

I've been using sitemeter for my site for over four years now. It is also free or you can upgrade, although I have never needed more info than they provide. All items in the left column below are included in the free package.

Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker (http://www.sitemeter.com/)

Google Analytics is free, too. Loads of information in a simple and easy to install (and understand) interface.

CPanel has also recently added Google Analytics - at least at Hostgator - so that the javascript is added dynamically by the server each time a page is requested. It's dead easy to install (all you have to do is get a Google Analytics account and put that ID in the configuration box in CPanel) but I haven't tried it yet, having just discovered its existence!

Google Analytics is definitely not difficult to install either....

Do be aware that there can be a fair bit of variation in statistics depending on how the counter works. See: Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!msg/analytics/oLFSo-lUHVg/yhaPkj_2BagJ) (see josedante's post)

I've been using StatCounter for a couple of years. Quite happy with it, though I haven't compared it with anything else.

I've been using StatCounter for a couple of years. Quite happy with it, though I haven't compared it with anything else.

reason I took stat counter was it was an easy install - copy and paste, plus I did not want to be with google.. 'THEY ALREADY KNOW TOO MUCH' LOL
plus with stat counter - it is breaks it down by OS and OS platform and screen size too
very important for everyone has a smart phone now or tablet.

http://i42.tinypic.com/351s9zp.png
interesting to see who visits my personal iWeb page of family photos.. LOL not a lot of hits for a site that was set up in one night.. [or my family photos are not funny enough. } ;)
http://i39.tinypic.com/258b335.png

I use extremetracking.com

reason I took stat counter was it was an easy install - copy and paste, plus I did not want to be with google.. 'THEY ALREADY KNOW TOO MUCH' LOL
plus with stat counter - it is breaks it down by OS and OS platform and screen size too
very important for everyone has a smart phone now or tablet.

http://i42.tinypic.com/351s9zp.png
interesting to see who visits my personal iWeb page of family photos.. LOL not a lot of hits for a site that was set up in one night.. [or my family photos are not funny enough. } ;)
http://i39.tinypic.com/258b335.png

Google Analytics has all this info in their reports as well. And all you do is cut and past the tracking code as well. Not saying either is 'better' just that the features are comparable.

Google Analytics is definitely the best stats engine out there right now. The tracking is solid and the UI is pretty easy to use, even for the novice. It tracks all the usual suspects like page views, geography, browser type, etc but also offers deeper tracking like social bookmarks and goal matrixes. In a nutshell, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be.

One thing you want to configure, and Google Analytics allows for this, not sure about others, is that you're not tracking yourself. How often you visit your own website and what pages you're viewing is pretty useless info. Google provides the means to filter this. As someone who works on the web, I'm in and out of client sites all day. Having me, or themselves, show up in their search results would skew their data.

Google Analytics is definitely the best stats engine out there right now. The tracking is solid and the UI is pretty easy to use, even for the novice. It tracks all the usual suspects like page views, geography, browser type, etc but also offers deeper tracking like social bookmarks and goal matrixes. In a nutshell, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be.

One thing you want to configure, and Google Analytics allows for this, not sure about others, is that you're not tracking yourself. How often you visit your own website and what pages you're viewing is pretty useless info. Google provides the means to filter this. As someone who works on the web, I'm in and out of client sites all day. Having me, or themselves, show up in their search results would skew their data.

yup stat counter offers that as well. everything you mentioned