The Aimstats' Web analytics solution claims to be unique in that it doesn't run on log files but uses a HTTP network analyzer that captures all traffic on the fly.

Bartley said one Aimstats customer is one of Australia's largest hosting sites where some 10,000 sites with 6 million page views per day is monitored with two servers.

"Our game is high-volume transaction rates [and] it's probably the most efficient method of aggregation and I don't know of anyone else doing it this way," he said.

Aimstats' solution is built on Debian Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP, and "a little bit of JavaScript".

"Another problem is the perception that Australian companies are not up to the market, but we are doing better than anyone else," Bartley said, adding production systems are processing some 500,000 transactions every two minutes with a peak of about 1000 transaction per second and it "handles that fine".