[KeyLimePi]

I work on our intranet at my office. I would say I'm the admin, but the truth is that I'm just the guy who inhereted a copy of Dreamweaver 3 and FTP access.

I'd love to track the usage of the site -- figure out which parts employees are hitting the most so I know where to best spend my dwindling engery. My question is this...is there a way beside a hit counter that I can track usage? I don't want a hit counter on the page because I don't want employees to become too self-conscience about their visits. But outside of a little javascript here and there, I can't add too much else.

[Simon Mundy]

Do you have access to the server software? Which platform/webserver are you running?

If you have 'admin' status then it would be prudent to look at some web log analyser software that allows you to measure/filter website logs with a high degree of control. Then you can more accurately track your visitors.

Finding out your platform is the first step before anyone can really advise on a good solution. Javascript 'hit' counters are pretty flimsy and non-representative of your 'real' traffic.

BTW, are you behind a proxy to access this webserver? This may also affect your solution.

[Phil Sherry]

if you have PHP/MySQL access, you can just throw something like TrackPro, or something similar on there. it's just as easy as adding a line of code to each page. no tacky hit counter shows up on the page.

[KeyLimePi]

Well, I'm an admin in name only. It's an Apache server, but I've just got FTP access, so my options are pretty limited. I guess it's time to make friends with the network guys.

Thanks all for the suggestions.