Talk:WebTrends

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Comments for this article and the facts written in it are more than welcome. I have written the content over 2 evenings based on own knowledge and experience using this tool thru the last 4 years. I also use other tools like ClientStep/Omniture, WebSiteStory HitBox, Google Analytics/Urchin etc, and therefore try to maintain objectivity.

I have not copy-pasted from any other site in order to deal with Copyright issues, which also means that some of the facts may be written using other terms to clarify the meaning.

Please comment!

can be contacted on piotr dot narloch at gmail doot com

Piotr Narloch 12:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Low Standard

This article needs a lot of work to make it non-commercial and intelligible, and to improve the English.

--84.9.82.184 21:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I've added the {{cleanup-rewrite}} template. Stephen Turner (Talk) 16:15, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spyware

Someone should add that this is S-P-Y-W-A-R-E. Hosted application? Log analyzer? Sounds like CoolWebSearch with a marketing department. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.39.61 (talk) 23:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I also agree, very similar to CoolWebSearch. Can easily be labeled as S-P-Y-W-A-R-E —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.240.195 (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If that is what you people think, then you think Wikipedia is spyware, since it LOGS YOUR ACTIVITY. All Webtrends does is analyze server log files OR create its own logs. It's not at all similar to CoolWebSearch, which is installed surreptitiously on YOUR own computer, for completely different purposes, and with completely different consequences. If you think that webmasters don't have any right to know how many people visit their site, and which pages they view while there, then you have a pretty militant/radical idea of what privacy you're entitled to. You might as well not use a computer at all. In fact, you might as well not ever even leave the house because somebody might see you. {[Special:Contributions/198.49.180.40|198.49.180.40]] (talk) 18:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It is spyware at the worse, many people find it difficult to remove from their computers. The last response is awfully vague in what his definition of activity logging is. Sure, it makes sense for websites like wiki to see what you're doing on THEIR site, but they have no right to know what we do somewhere else. 134.48.160.167 (talk) 18:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)G.L.

WebTrends is not on YOUR computer. Unless you bought it and installed it so that YOU can see what people are doing on YOUR site. That's why it's so hard to remove - it's NOT THERE in the first place. 198.49.180.40 (talk) 19:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)