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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
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
- Urchin 6.6, like Urchin 5, allows you to cancel a running log processing job.
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 exporting - You can export to TSV which can be manipulated to look alright in MS Word.)
- 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.
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