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I need to Track Unique Visitor count in my web application. I would really like to use Google Analytics but due to the Load limitations that google imposes I will not be able to use them. I am expecting WAY over 10,000 requests a day. This is the limitation that Google web analytics API imposes. Is there another company that has the same features as google analytics that is paid or free?

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Luke101
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  • Why are you making over 10000 requests per day? Surely if you request every minute it would be more than sufficient. – Kirk Broadhurst Oct 09 '09 at 01:28
  • I am expecting my site to grow more than 100,000 pages. According to google limitations I can only request 1000 items/pages at a time with a max of 10,000. So I can request 1000 pages for the first page then 1000 for the 2nd page but i cant request the 11th page because it will be over 10,000 entries. – Luke101 Oct 09 '09 at 02:07
  • There are [several alternatives](https://wpslimseo.com/free-google-analytics-alternatives/) which are open-source or free on cloud with limitations. – Anh Tran Jul 03 '23 at 08:12

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There definitely are.

Here are two open source and free solutions that are very polished:

Piwik - Designed as a direct competitor to Google Analytics (it looks just as nice) that you host on your own servers

Open Web Analytics

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the 10,000 request apply to the Data API, not to the actual data collection.

Like you can have an unlimited number of users seeing your website. On the other hand if you use the API to extract data from their database, you can do 10k request a day only.

check this link for more details

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  • Yes..I will be downloading tracking information into my own database and it will contain over 10,000 pages. I must get this information daily for every page. – Luke101 Oct 09 '09 at 01:24
  • I see, do you need a javascript based solution or a log parsing tool would be ok ? – RageZ Oct 09 '09 at 01:28
  • I can use eiter as long as it has an api were i can download statistics in my own database. – Luke101 Oct 09 '09 at 02:08
  • what figures you exactly needs pageview ? orther things? – RageZ Oct 09 '09 at 02:21
  • I just need something similar to google analytics with similar features. But I must have an api so I can programmatically pull the information – Luke101 Oct 09 '09 at 03:51
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The biggest, most obvious, most usual alternative is to simply do it yourself. Your webserver needs to log requests for security etc. anyway, so it's not a big deal to run something like webalizer on those logs. You won't get the quick, easy access to advanced information like paths users take through the site, btu that can be determined if you care enough. You do gain one huge benefit though: privacy of your own data.

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We use Omniture here but it'll cost you.

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    Yes..I have already spoken to omniture and they said they will charge me $1000/month for the features I need. I can't afford that. I also talked to visistat, they are much cheaper but they don't have a mature API. – Luke101 Oct 09 '09 at 01:26
  • Wow, yeah they're not cheap but the stuff you get out of them is actually pretty good. I work for a corporate so i never knew they cost that much. Insane! For that price you could write one in a couple of weeks/months. :) – griegs Oct 09 '09 at 01:38
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There is SpeedTrap, a java-based analytics package. Our company used it for years before they turned into cheap **ards and decided Google Analytics was more cost effective (because it was free). But that's a story for another night.

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