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The Main Differences Between Urchin 5 and 6

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Major Features

• Up to 1000 profiles (domains), log sources, e-commerce, and campaign tracking all included with base license; no add-on modules
• Individual visitor-level tracking, including session (path) data
• Comprehensive SEO/SEM campaign tracking features, 4 goals per profile
• Rich cross-segmenting available from most reports
• Full suite of visitor geo-location reports (not just visitor domain)
• Processing speed roughly on par with Urchin 5 but with much richer reports

Platform Support

• Broad range of Linux platforms supported with only 2 builds (Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels)
• Added support for FreeBSD 5 and FreeBSD 6
• Dropped support for MacOS X and Solaris (may be reconsidered if sufficient demand is demonstrated)

Installers

• Windows installer is now distributed as an MSI package, better unattended install support, integration with SMS

Configuration

• Relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) administrative configuration backend
• Support for configuration database hosted on remote configuration server

Web Server

• Upgraded to latest Apache 1.3.X release
• OpenSSL and mod-ssl upgraded to latest versions
• Removed default modules not used by Urchin
• Added mod_expires for proper cache control headers

Task Scheduler

• Scheduler now runs as two processes - master scheduler and slave scheduler
• Tasks easily managed via scripting interface to back end configuration DB
• More robust/reliable support for running multiple instances of slave scheduler on a single machines and/or in a cluster

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Visitor Tracking

• The old __utm.js tracking javascript has been replaced with a Google Analytics-compatible urchin.js tracking javascript (existing sites will need to upgrade)

Log Processing

• geodata stored in memory (larger runtime memory footprint)
• Range of Days feature in log sources allows multi-day search for log files matching a particular date pattern
• Ability to run profiles entirely in memory

Data & Storage

• Profile databases now default to 100,000 records/month (instead of 10,000) with option to increase up to 500,000 records per month
• Expanded Geodata: full set of geolocation data from Quova, replaces domain-only MaxMind data
• Monthly table record limit increased from default of 10,000 to 100,000 records
• 50 monthly files per profile, now organized by subdirectory

Reporting UI

• Flash replaces Adobe SVG for rendering graphs & charts
• Report exporting only in CSV and XML (removed unreliable MS Word/ Excel exporting)
• All Profiles report is defunct
• New visitor session/path level reporting capabilities

Ecommerce

• Ecommerce transactions can be written directly to webserver logs via special functions in the tracking javascript (identical to GA)
• External shopping cart logs in ELF2 format also supported

Security

• Urchin 6 has gone through a thorough quality assurance for cross- site scripting (XSS) and XSRF vulnerabilities

Urchin Support

• As a logfile analyzer, one concern may be how to control the size of your logfiles. Urchin can be set up in such a way to maintain the logfiles itself. Manage your Urchin installation smart from the very start.

• We'd be happy to help you with your Urchin installation! Check out our support plan options for further details.

• Ready to test drive Urchin 6? Download a free 30 day trial.

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