Two start-up companies, Andromedia and WebThreads plan
to announce new management tools next week that promise to help Webmasters
track site visitors more precisely.
Andromedia will unveil the Aria WWW Recording and Reporting
System to let Webmasters take a snapshot of site traffic at any given moment
and to follow individuals as they surf through the site to get a more accurate
picture of how their sites are used. The system has been designed to handle
up to 10 million hits per day and can monitor one or several Web servers.
Aria works with Web servers from Netscape Communications
running on Sun Microsystems' hardware. When the system ships in the third
quarter, pricing will start at $1,800 but could go as high as $35,000.
WebThreads will release the first beta version of its
system Monday that will also focus on tracking individual movements through
a site, according to Yermo Lamers, the product's developer. Pricing for
the system will start at $895, but the company has not yet set a final
release date.
"This software is easy to use for a particular audience.
We want to provide programming-like capabilities to people with HTML experience,"
Landers said, adding that WebThreads works on any server.
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