Urchin version 5 was first launched during 2004 and has become
very widely deployed by both individual web site owners and hosting
services who provide it as their standard web analytics package for
hosted clients.
Urchin version 6 was launched during April 2008 following a long
gestation and subsequent testing phase. Urchin 6 incorporates most
of the features of the corresponding generation of Google Analytics.
The main differences between Urchin 5 and 6 are as follows:
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)
Expanded
Geodata: full set of geolocation data from Quova
Geodata
stored in memory
Processing
speed roughly on par with Urchin 5 but with much richer reports
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
Profile
databases now default to 100,000 records/month (instead of 10,000)
with option to increase up to 500,000 records/month
Flash replaces
Adobe SVG for rendering graphs and charts
New visitor
session/path level reporting capabilities
Ecommerce
transactions can be written directly to web-server logs via special
functions in the tracking javascript (identical to GA)
External
shopping cart logs in ELF2 format also supported
