Google Analytics Vs. Server-based Analytics

With Google Analytics quickly becoming the de facto web analytics choice for most small businesses and a growing number of medium size business sites, we're interested in how you're handling this transition?

For example, we've had many discussions with customers and colleagues about the differences in how 'Visits' are calculated. Server-based analytic tools usually report much higher 'Visit' stats than Google Analytics. For a good overview of this issue, please see Google Analytics Vs. Server Logs.

There is a case for both Web analytics options (and others statistics tools) and we have our opinions, but we want to hear from you. Let us know what you think, and tell us about your experiences.