my concern with multiple analytic engines is that each one that you put ‘in/on’ your page spawns off a request to the respective analytics ‘mothership’ sites. If there are net congestion problems or any of the remote sites are down, your customers may experience odd sluggishness in *your* site’s responsiveness. I prefer to use the free ‘analog’ or ‘awstats’ to analyze my own logs and minimize the external dependencies. That said, your point about distributing the risk is still well advised.

thanks for the good read/pointers.

–d