AWStats

By , July 19, 2005

The AWStats tool graphically generates advanced Web, streaming, FTP, and mail server statistics. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line. It shows your log information in graphical Web pages and uses a partial information file to process large log files. It can analyze log files from all major server tools, such as Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format), and other Web, proxy, WAP, streaming servers, mail servers, and FTP servers.

A full log analysis gives you the following information:

• Number of visits and unique visitors
  
  
• Visit duration and last visits
  
  
• Authenticated users and last authenticated visits
  
  
• Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week)
  
  
• Visitors' domains/countries (pages, hits, KB, 269 domains/countries detected, GeoIp detection)
  
  
• Hosts' list, last visits, and unresolved IP addresses list
  
  
• Most viewed, entry, and exit pages
  
  
• File types
  
  
• Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate)
  
  
• OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OSs detected)
  
  
• Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version (Web, WAP, media browsers: 97 browsers, more than 450 if using browsers_phone.pm library file)
  
  
• Robot visits (319 robots detected)
  
  
• Worms attacks (5 worms' families)
  
  
• Search engines, keyword phrases, and keywords used to find your site (the 115 most famous search engines are detected)
  
  
• HTTP errors ("Page Not Found" with last referrer, etc.)
  
  
• Other personalized reports based on URL, URL parameters, referrer field for miscellaneous/marketing purpose
  
  
• Number of times your site is bookmarked
  
  
• Screen size (need to add some HTML tags in index page)
  
  
• Ratio of browsers with support of Java, Flash, RealG2, QuickTime, WMA, PDF (need to add some HTML tags in index page)
  
  
• Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.

AWStats is a free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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