Dallas, Texas-based SoftLayer specializes in providing hosting services to small and medium sized businesses, which is an area that Urchin’s web analytics are focused.
The company is partnering with Actual Metrics, a boutique web marketing consultancy for Google Analytics and Urchin Software platforms, to deliver an enterprise-grade website analysis tool that serves up statistics on web server and site activity, such as how visitors reach a site, where they go and what they do within the site, when they return, and so on.
The software works with. It is also highly scalable: a single installation can monitor a single site with few page views or hundreds of load-balanced sites with millions of page views, said Matt Chilek, vice president of development at SoftLayer.
Site administrators can observe and tracking how users are engaging with their site.
The software works on Windows, Linux and BSD and requires a 20 megabyte footprint.
Founded in 2005, SoftLayer uses a proprietary network-within-network architecture to host applications.
Google acquired San Diego, California-based Urchin Software back in 2005 for an undisclosed sum. Urchin competes against other website tracking and analysis tools like WebTrends.
