A necessity when you have a website, it's amateur or professional, is to know what happens, those who visit us as we sail, where it goes and how long it is, this is because the analysis of the data we collect is a source valuable to understand and improve the whole site.
There are service providers that adding a small java script in our pages, can also provide in-depth analysis of all the traffic, we think of Google Analytics , ShinyStat and StatCounter to name a few.
But even if they are free services provided by names, and "noble" is said to be 100% reliable, sometimes wrong, or could not count anything! In short, if it's free We can not also request an SLA of 100%! (Read what happened to Pignatelli.com )
So even if we are consumers of services that analyze the traffic is always good to have a "counter evidence" of our own, and obviously we are in against the network: AWSTAT is a free, open source gives us both off-line analysis on data from the previous day and on-line request to speak.
It is developed in Perl, so you can run it on almost all systems, or at least the most commonly used and has a number of features that make it really powerful:
* Number of visits, and number of unique visitors
* Visits duration and last visits,
* Authenticated users and last authenticated user,
* Days of week and time slots (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week)
* Domain / countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB, 269 domains / countries recognized, recognition geoip)
* Hosts list, last visits and unrecognized IP
* 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 OS detected),
* Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for ognih browser, each version (Web, Wap, Media browsers: 97 browsers)
* Visits of robots (319 robots recognized),
* Worms attacks,
* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site (The 115 most famous search engines are detected like Yahoo, Google, AltaVista, etc. ..)
* HTTP errors (Page Not Found with last referrer, ...)
* Other personalized reports based on url, url parameters, referer field for miscellaneous / marketing purpose,
* Number of times your site is "added to favorites."
* Screen size (need to add some HTML tags on the page).
* Report of the browser with the support of: Java, Flash, RealG2, Quicktime, WMA, PDF (must add some HTML tags in index page).
* Cluster report for load balanced servers on a report
Its operation is logically simple: analyze the log files of the most common web server and generates reports as HTML pages.
Obviously has a configuration file that must be "customized" in case you want different from the standard reports.
What you will get something like this:
In a next post I will explain how to use it and how to create a configuration file.
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This post was written by admin on October 30, 2008
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Hello and good work