@8 Try Piwik or some other Open Source similar project. Make sure to secure it properly. AWstats is server-side, counts robots, spammers etc. Analytics rely on Javascript, hence capture behavior from "real" visitors (well, most of the times). It is only normal to find discrepancies between results - for example having scripts blocked in one's browser will not fire the analytics.http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/1214694-post8.html