Google Analytics has left the beta stage and is now available to everyone, without any waiting time for an account.
It’s actually pretty cool, i’ve been running it on my site for about ˝ a year by now and it generates some pretty good statistics and reports.
I believe it’s a good alternative to a lot of other statistics products, it might need at few things, you’ll find in some enterprise products – but it’s an online service and it’s free 
Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.
Read more at the Google Analytics Blog or just sign up for an account at Google Analytics and test it yourself
Microsoft has released a What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) blogging tool and delivered it in the form of Windows Live Writer.
This is the blogs currently compatible with Windows Live Writer:
- Windows Live Spaces
- Blogger
- LiveJournal
- TypePad
- WordPress
- All blogs that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability)
- Metaweblog API
- Moveable Type API
Read more at the Windows Live Writer blog.
Download Windows Live Write Beta for free.
Steve Schofield has published a new version (2.0) of his product IISLogs Lite. It’s a free product and this latest version has more functionality than the previous version.
IILogsLite 2.0 version offers the ability to ZIP files and optionally delete the original log file.
This version is written using .NET 2.0 Framework. IISLogsLite 2.0 has new features including the ability to “automatically” add WWW, FTP and SMTP folders defined in the metabase.
You can also add your own folders. This version will handle file extensions ending in “.log”, “.zip”, “.bdr”, “.bdp”, “.bad”, optionally “.xml”.
Get IISLogsLite 2.0 here and read more at the IISLogs website.
Found a cool and easy to use log analyzer tool named WebLog Expert, it’s available in a free edition and an enterprise edition. It’s fast and it can generate some nice reports from IIS logfiles.
WebLog Expert is a powerful access log analyzer. It will give you information about your site’s visitors: activity statistics, accessed files, paths through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and more. The program produces easy-to-read HTML reports that include both text information (tables) and charts. View the WebLog Expert sample report to get the general idea of the variety of information about your site’s usage it can provide.
Read more about the full features at source.
Download it here.
Another recommendable log analyzer is Awstats, which I’ve mention before.
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