I was poking around trying to find a nice analytics package the other day when I came across a fantastic open source one. If you’re interested in tracking and analytics of your sites you might want to check out:

Free Analytics and Statistics Package - http://www.phpmyvisites.us 

Now I know it doesn’t do everything that a lot of the  of the paid services do with click streams and the like. However if you’re currently using something like statcounter.com this is definately a better solution as it gives you:

  1. One it’s a free analytics/statistics package
  2. Has heatmapping built in
  3. You host it so you’re not sharing your data with anyone.
  4. You get a lot of the features that statcounter charges you extra for for Free.

I’ve been looking at it and it would be great to hybrid it with a a click tracking system for PPC. I haven’t done a ton of research into the code yet but if someone was interested in working on this together it might be pretty cool to build a click/conversion tracking plug-in for it. Then eventually move that to a bid management plug-in of some sort. Let me know what you think.