People love Google and I'm not an exception too. But that does not make it necessary to take it for granted that everything Google is godlike. I don't believe that 'Googliness is Godliness' (my take on cleanliness is godliness). And adding to my agony (besides Google Chrome), Google Analytics is playing fowl with my website for months. Some friend of mine recommended it to me and I accepted (now I'm feeling guilty of it). Google Analytics is shit, a pure piece of crap. It makes your site a helluva slow, add to its latency, spy on what you are doing with Adsense and also after all those craps, does not show actual and accurate stats at the end of the day. And did I mention that it also can't track the traffic in real time? Not so Google like, which applied a great layer of AJAX and JavaScript to all of it's major apps like Gmail or Reader that works.
I am still relying on my awstats, and that's great for me now. I don't needed to set a goal to catch up, I don't need to see flashy graphical representations of all the stats you are provided with. I just want a simple, low on bandwidth but accurate and detailed statistical system and awstats is providing it with pleasure.
