Since I have requested/suggested features relating to statistics before, let me pitch in and add my 2 cents' worth: 1. Drupal will never be able to provide some statistics, for example, bandwidth usage, HTTP response sizes, ..etc. since it does not have access to this feature. This level of detail is at the web server, and not the application (at least in Drupal's case). 2. Drupal can add some of the features in a fairly straightforward fashion, such as: a. Daily/weekly/monthly statistics (number of hits [really page views], which requires no database changes). If someone can suggest a more ANSI way of getting the stats, I can change the patch I did a while back on this. See http://drupal.org/node/15329 b. Web browser statistics (requires that the user agent be stored) c. Extracting search engine keywords can be done (each search engine has a special argument for the keywords, such as q= for google, ...etc. Webalizer configuration file lists them). d. Others. 3. Something like Short Stats is nice to have, for 'at-a-glance' view. However, I prefer the level of detail that specialized modules provide, such as Webalizer.