Once you log in to SmarterStats you are greeted with the most commonly requested report items: Visits, Views, Bandwidth, Top Pages, Top Referrers, and Search Engine data. The Home Page gives you the majority of information you are looking for when viewing your web site's statistics.

SmarterStats provides you with a number of Standard Reports, or collections of popular and useful Report Items arranged to provide the most useful data for specific people in your organization. Standard Reports range from a CEO Report, which provides upper management with a variety of performance and structural data, to Traffic and Visitor Reports for webmasters and other IT professionals. Users of the Enterprise Edition can even Create their own reports using custom reports.

SmarterStats gives you all the information you want and need with dozens of Report Items, and an easy sidebar navigation system allows you to find the Items you need quickly. Virtually every piece of information contained in your web server log files is there: visitors, hits, views, downloads, search engine queries, search engine spiders, bandwidth usage, geographic details, and much, much more.

Not everyone likes web site statistics based off of the time the logs were created on the web server. SmarterStats offers many customization options, including allowing you to process your statistics based off of your particular Time Zone. You can also choose to exclude statistics generated from IP addresses or specific directories. They're your statistics; you should be able to get then however you want.

Some people like to keep their site's server log files for later use, either with a desktop log file analysis package or for importing the log files into a separate database. SmarterStats gives you the ability to export and download your IIS or similar log files anytime you want and in virtually any format.