Features A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
* Number of VISITS, and UNIQUE VISITORS, list of last visits,
* Days of week and Rush hours (pages, hits, kb for each hour and day of week),
* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, kb, 259 domains/countries detected),
* Authenticated users,
* Most often pages viewed and entry pages,
* File types,
* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip),
* Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser, each version, 72 browsers: Web, Wap, Media browsers...),
* OS used (pages, hits, kb for each OS, 28 OS detected),
* VISITS OF ROBOTS (287 robots detected),
* SEARCH ENGINES, Keyphrases or Keywords used to find your site (The 57 most famous search engines are detected like yahoo, google, altavista, etc...),
* HTTP errors (Page Not Found, ...),
AWStats also supports the following features:
* Can analyze a lot of log formats: Apache NCSA combined log files (XLF/ELF) or common (CLF), IIS log files (W3C), WebStar native log files and other web, proxy or wap servers log files). See AWStats F.A.Q. for examples.
* Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI,
* Update of statistics can be made from a web browser and not only from your scheduler,
* Unlimited log file size, support splited log files (load balancing system),
* Reverse DNS lookup during analysis,
* A lot of options/filters can be defined,
* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers, great for web-hosting providers),
* Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection,
* Several languages. See AWStats F.A.Q. for full list.
* No need of extra perl libraries. All basic perl interpreters can make AWStats working,
* Look and colors can match your site design,
* Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages,
* Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit),
* Absolutely free (even for web hosting providers), with sources (GNU General Public License)
* AWStats has a XML Portable Application Description.
Requirements:
To use AWStats, you need the following requirements:
* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read (better if read and write access).
* You must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files) from command line and/or as CGI.
If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at ActivePerl (Win32) or Perl.com (Unix/Linux/Other).
See AWStats F.A.Q. to have examples of supported OS and Web servers.
