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The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Open source Webfile log analysis programs
The following is a supplement to Chapter 6, Webserving, that contains a list
of Webfile log analysis programs. These are open source C programs or scripts that will parse the logs generated by a Webserver, typically Apache.
Analog
http://www.analog.cx/
Analog operates similarly to WWWstat. Its author purports it to be the most
popular log analyzer in the world.
AWstats
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
AWstats is a GNU web log analyzer and can detect robots. It has a lot of
support for international, multiple languages.
Webalizer
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Webalizer is a C program also released under the GNU license.
WWWstat
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/
WWWstat was one of the first Webserver log analysis scripts available. It
is not used as commonly as it once was. It suffers from 3 deficiencies.
First, it has no graphical output (although a companion program, gwstat,
can produce pretty graph output). Second, it does not take into account
Referer information, although there is a set of patches that adds this
capability to it. Finally, it does not take into account visits by robots. Thus a lightly used site with only a few hits a month can show many more hits than actual visits by users.
© Copyright 2000-2003 Ted Mittelstaedt. All rights reserved.
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