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SmarterStats Edition Explanation

Professional Edition vs. Enterprise Edition

SmarterStats Professional has all the features you need in a complete business analytics solution, including web log analytics, search engine optimization and site tuning. SmarterStats Enterprise offers additional features, including:

  • Custom reporting
  • Scheduled and on-demand email reports
  • Support for up to 30,000 websites spread over multiple web servers per SmarterStats installation
  • Reports across distributed networks on a virtually unlimited number of servers
  • Propagation of settings across distributed networks

SmarterStats Free

SmarterStats Free includes the same functionality as SmarterStats Enterprise, but does not include support for distributed analysis and is limited to a single site and a single SEO campaign. This is to give you an opportunity to try all the features out before making a decision on which edition to purchase.

Features Free1 Pro Enterprise
Licensing
Allows for multiple sites per server   • •
Distributed analysis across multiple servers     •
Business Analytics
Site activity reports (traffic, visitors, files, paths, referrals, etc.) • • •
Demographic reports (browsers, devices, OS, geographic, etc.) • • •
Server activity reports (includes server utilization breakdown) • • •
Spider and bot reports • • •
Site tuning • • •
Data mining • • •
Administration
Administration from a Web browser • • •
Getting Started wizard • • •
Support for rotating logs • • •
Auto-detect log file types • • •
Custom skinning • • •
Custom link in Help menu • • •
Review and download log files from interface • • •
Mass propagation of settings for sites • • •
Mass propagation of settings for servers       •
User impersonation • • •
Import site settings directly from IIS • • •
Requires no database backend • • •
Standalone Web server included • • •
Optional IIS integration • • •
Easy site setup • • •
Background processing • • •
Automation with Web services • • •
Architecture and Log Files
Support for the most common log formats (including .GZ and .ZIP) • • •
Import from multiple log sources • • •
Automated site diagnostics • • •
Compressed SmarterLog files • • •
Low-impact log processing • • •
Load-balanced log headers • • •
Log file exporting • • •
Query variable support • • •
IP and directory exclusions • • •
Distributed log analysis (FTP, Secure FTP, UNC, and SAMBA) • • •
Distributed log analysis (remote agent)     •
Reporting
Separation of human and spider/bot traffic data • • •
Dual axis charting • • •
Filter sets (exclude and/or include data in reports) • • •
Page aliases • • •
Data drill down available from report items • • •
Define custom reports •   •
Scheduled and on-demand email reports (in more than 20 different languages) •   •
Geographic mapping • • •
Custom data ranges • • •
Time-zone specific reporting • • •
Customizable chart views • • •
Export reports to CSV and PDF • • •
Clickable URLs in report tables • • •
Web Interface
Multi-language compatible • • •
Optimized AJAX controls provide desktop application performance • • •
Compatible with most mobile devices and tablets (iPad, iPhone, Android, etc.) •    •

1SmarterStats Free includes the same functionality as SmarterStats Enterprise, but is limited to a single site. This is to give you an opportunity to try all the features out before making a decision on which edition to purchase.