Alternative Web Analytics Programs

I was wondering if anyone here uses more than one web analytics software. There has been a recent hickup with Google Analytics and we sort of 'lost' about a week's worth of e-commerce tracking. I am thinking that it may be wise to install a secondary web analytics program, and the 2 can work as a check on the other.

Has anyone else here done this? If so, which analytics program did you go with?

I use google analytics and statcounter at my webpage. This works fine and as per the terms & conditions of the service providers, it not at all a violation. Why dont you do something like that.

You should always have another web analytics application implemented to verify results and avoid situations like you've described above. If you could afford professional grade tool, I would recommend ClickTracks or even better Omniture SiteCatalyst. WebCEO could work very well for as well.

I use only GG Analytic for my site.
I think If you have a lot of traffic, it better to use 2 or more web-analytic. But It mean that it will load more server resource, too.

It won't neccessarily use more server resource depending on what type of system it is. Google Analytics doesn't load your server up at all as it uses an external script, its the client that does the very minimal additional work.

Don't forget that if your analytics provider stopped working, you still have your server logs (probably) stored on your server so you can always get access to your site useage.

You can manually integorate them or you can feed them into a thrid part analytics package.

Personally I think Google Analytics is excellent, although their recent hick up did lose me some stats data. It wasn't a big issue for me.

You could go with a server side Urchin 5 - which is what Google Analytics is based on and the Google Analytics package so you are comfortable and familiar with the software and have a back up.

If this is a major concern I would recomend that you archive and backup your server log files on a regular basis.