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This is another indication of how eager the tech industry is to get in on the same monetization model that Rovio was just implicated in with the Snowden documents--data for dollars.

Rovio was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is trying to get involved in a "goldrush" of funds that have infused the industry with a serious lack of morality.

As I pointed out in a couple of posts recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ), it is the mobile analytics market that the NSA is targeting for their data on as many people as possible. Those analytics providers are doing what the NSA cannot do themselves legally--gather data. Analytics providers do the gathering, and the NSA either steals or buys the data. It's as simple as that folks.

The really dirty secret is that pretty much every company out there with an internet presence and a mobile presence (an app) is complicit in this gathering of data, and they all know it. Both The New York Times and The Guardian use the exact same analytics firm that Rovio uses in their mobile game "Angry Birds", yet they are the ones that published articles based on Edward Snowden documents outlining NSA activity that targeted mobile analytics. Hypocrites.

Just to give you an idea of just how big this iceberg is, dig deep in the following webpages--they outline, by connections, a web of investors and customers that are perpetrating a global auction of our privacy.

Amazon -- Seattle, Wa.
https://developer.amazon.com/s...

Jaspersoft -- San Francisco, CA.
https://www.jaspersoft.com/mob...

Google -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.google.com/analytic...

Flurry -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.flurry.com/flurry-a...

Localytics -- Boston, MA.
http://www.localytics.com/

Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat...

Konitgent -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.kontagent.com/compa...

Webtrends -- Portland, OR.
http://webtrends.com/solutions...

Bango -- London, UK
http://bango.com/corporate/

Apsalar -- San Francisco, CA.
https://apsalar.com/

Piwik -- London, UK
http://piwik.org/what-is-piwik...

Mobilytics (Mobivity) -- Chandler, AZ.
http://www.mobilytics.net/

Adobe -- San Jose, CA.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions...

Openwave Mobility -- Redwood City, CA.
http://owmobility.com/about-us

Mixpanel -- San Francisco, CA.
https://mixpanel.com/

Urban Airship -- San Francisco/London
http://urbanairship.com/produc...

Cognizant -- Teaneck, NJ.
http://www.cognizant.com/enter...

Amethon -- Sydney, AU
http://www.amethon.com/

The ring to rule them all, if you believe the developers..
Segment.io -- San Francisco, CA.
https://segment.io/mobile

For the inner workings, see linked Whitepaper. A good list of other miscreants is included on that

when i visit a site and someone called webtrends attempts to connect to my facebook account and get a list of my friends without asking i would call it a security risk, or just a plain old "hack", maybe the police would like a word with them ?

peep the code
http://s.webtrends.com/js/webtrends.fb.js

One organization I work with uses Webtrends... we have Pro 7, the predecessor to their current Analytics 8. For various reasons, it only relies on analyzing log files (vs. Google Analytics JavaScript implementation, which I use elsewhere). This is not always clear, and frequently numbers on one report don't totally jive with numbers on another report for the same data (e.g. Webtrends has dozens of "report" pages).

It's also remarkably expensive. I'd look elsewhere if you could.

WebTrends offers software like this. We outsource a lot of our web stuff and one of our providers runs WebTrends and our people who like looking at pretty pictures really seem to like it. I have never installed or configured their software so I can't speak for ease of use, but the end user reports are easy to navigate. IIRC you can download a demo from their site and play with it. They do seem to have a demo report you can look at and see if this meets your needs.

WebTrends offers software like this. We outsource a lot of our web stuff and one of our providers runs WebTrends and our people who like looking at pretty pictures really seem to like it. I have never installed or configured their software so I can't speak for ease of use, but the end user reports are easy to navigate. IIRC you can download a demo from their site and play with it. They do seem to have a demo report you can look at and see if this meets your needs.

I have tried webalizer and webtrends, but without a doubt, nr. 1 is Urchin. It really is the cream of the crop, but it costs too. You check out a sample here.

If you get an account with Verio, you will get your stats in Urchin for free.

There are already too many places and softwares that are only compatible with IE. For instance, Webtrends in addition to just generally sucking, only works with IE. This is a problem, since the webtrends marketing department has implanted the idea that webtrends is the best in every pointy-haired boss.

We use Webtrends log analyser for Linux. It costs a mint but is fantastic in the quality of reports it generates. There is a 30 day trial you might like to try.

check out their website, i believe they have a free trial.