The site gets about 30,000 unique visitors a month (well over 1.5m page views – both figures growing fast) due in large part to a very active community in the forums. David (who owns the site) is a sailor – he’s done well over 100 000 off shore miles, and has spent about a year of his life in a ‘real’ job as he puts it. He loves sailing and meeting people and all he really wants is the figures he can put in front of advertisers (of which they have quite a few). He doesn’t want to have to spend his time trying to figure out Webalizer (or anything else remotely technical), so I think by the sounds, it’ll be perfect too.

The installations will be our domain (ooh – bad pun) so fiddly is ok. We’ll be looking to do this 7 days from now (Saturday night here in New Zealand – the only quiet time on the forums) so once done, and David’s had a chance to give Mint a whirl, I’ll post back and let you know whether he liked the taste or not

What’s more, you can create multiple logins to access Mint. I haven’t experimented with this, but I *think* you could create a login for your client and strip Mint down so it only shows the basics, and then for your own login have more detailed stats.

It’s certainly worth a try.

I’m with David on this one – I’ve also been using Slimstat for the blog portion of our site, and relying on Awstats for the rest of the site.

We are currently working with a client that runs a very successful sailing site, including forums (currently phpBB2 – moving to phpBB3 or possibly SMF soon), and Awstats and Webalizer, Google stats, etc just confuse him. Would I be correct in thinking that Mint could be exactly what we’re looking for?

If this is the case, how easy did you find it to set up?

Karl

p.s. I came across your post from David’s latest post re: ‘worthy subcontractors’.

David – You should give Mint a try on one of your blogs. It’s closely related to Slimstat (Shortstat was Shaun Inman’s previous project) but a prettier, more refined option.

Thanks for the post