New AWstats installer
Posted May 17 at 08:44 CDT by Remi in Software, Webstats - 3 comment(s)
We've just added a new one-click installer for AWstats.
Many people consider AWstats a better log analyzer than Webalizer, which was the only analyzer we officially supported until now.
Benefits of the AWstats installer over Webalizer include:
- Ability to mount the AWstats app on a subdomain or different domain (so you can put your stats on http://stats.domain.com for instance, which wasn't possible with Webalizer)
- More accurate statistics (AWstats tries to remove all non-human traffic)
- Faster/more robust parsing of logs
If you switch from Webalizer to AWstats you will probably notice a big drop in your statistics. The reason is detailed in the AWstats FAQ but the main reason is that AWstats doesn't count non-human traffic (robots, worms, ...).
A sample AWstats report can be view here
Remi.3 comments:
Sanjeeve said on 2007-06-25 13:31:47:
Hi RemiThank you for adding this app. I was looking this :)
It will be great if you add the instructions for installation and configuration for AWstats.
cheers
Sanj
David Sissitka said on 2007-06-26 11:02:19:
Once you've created an application of type AWStats all that you have to do is add it to one of your websites to make it web accessible. As for configuration of AWStats I suggest skimming AWStats' documentation which is available at:http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/
Is there anything in paritcular that you need help configuring?
Thanks - awstats is nice.
By default all the IP addresses are unresolved.
To get a sense of where the visits are coming from in the Countries and Hosts part of the awstats report I set
DNSLookup=1 in the cgi-bin/awstats*conf file. Note that this would not be a good idea for a site with lots of hits....