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Understanding referrals in awstats

brassafrax — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:54 -0800

In awstats, what are these unlabeled columns under referrals? In awstats, the "connect to site from" section contains two columns of numbers. For most referrers, these numbers are the same, but for some, the second column contains a higher number.

I do not believe these columns represent pageviews vs. hits or similar, because the numbers are usually the same in both columns.

I've checked the documentation and searched Google but have not been able to find an answer. Any insight is appreciated.

Am I using the right guide to set up AwStats?

Sweetdefenestration — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:02:02 -0800

Is this the right guide to help me set up AwStats to process log files downloaded to my local drive, even it's for Apache and I'm using IIS -- W3C Extended log files? Background: Previously, we've gotten our "official" website stats from an outside group who use WebTrends. In house, we use GA and WebLog Expert. Very different top referrers (puzzling) and raw visitor stats (natch).

I'm attempting the nearly impossible and find a log-based analyzer that will give me the closest stats to WebTrends, for continuity's sake.

I'm having a hell of a time with the install... just to test a quarter's worth of data. But, here in the Green and other places, it's so strongly recommended that I don't want to discard it as an option. I don't know how to script or have a lot of background in this area, but am happy to play and learn... as long as I'm on the right path.

The potential follow-up questions I think i should be asking are:
If this isn't the right set of instructions, can you point me to one that is?
Am I missing something fundamental in my understanding here?

Thank you!

Apache + 20 virtual hosts + awstats?

xmutex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:41:08 -0800

Apache + 20+ virtual hosts + awstats with one access log? Can one configure awstats to properly render individual awstats pages per virtual host if all virtual hosts are writing to the same access log?

Help with stats

thebwit — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:49:59 -0800

Why is there such a difference between Google's Analytics, awstats and webalizer? Google analytics says my site received just under 5000 visitors for the month of may, awstats says I received just under 28,000 and webalizer says I received 65,001 visitors. Which one is the most accurate? Which one do I point advertisers to?

How do I correct a discrepancy between MRTG and Apache?

PuGZ — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:43:34 -0800

How can I go about rectifying the discrepancy between AWStats/Analog/Apache log tools and MRTG graphs? I've searched endlessly on Google, but everyone has the opposite problem to me. My MRTG graphs from my provider (LayeredTech, for what it's worth) are consistently lower than what is reported by Apache logs and therefore tools like AWStats, Analog, Webalizer and the like. I figure this is due to people starting downloads (and thus HTTP 200 status codes), but cancelling their downloads.

The discrepancy is as much as 30GB a month (45GB in MRTG vs. 75GB elsewhere), so a solution to this would be greatly appreciated. Any pointers, AskMefi?

Please recommend an Apache log analysis?

Nelson — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:02:07 -0800

What open source package do you like for Apache logfile analysis? I need to set up some significant usage reporting for a web application. I'm looking for a reporting application for Apache style logs that's robust and customizable. Not looking just for some little report of top URLs for the day, but something that goes into detail on user agents, page load times, IP addresses, etc. Something with a pluggable report system would be ideal because I need to do some app-specific custom reports.

Much of my traffic is API calls, not web browsers, so I think Javascript-based logging like Mint and server-hosted things like Google Analytics won't work. I need something that works primarily off of logs. Storing data in MySQL is ok, but I'd prefer just to work straight from log files.

What's good, flexible, and not ugly? I know about Webalizer, Analog, and AWStats, but in the past when I've used them they've all seemed a bit awkward and limited. It's been awhile, maybe they've improved? Or maybe there's an alternative?

Help me parse the logs, Jim!

dance — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:53:55 -0800

Hi, I'm hosted with TextDrive who don't provide stats or log analysis for their customers. I do have access to the raw Apache log files, though, and would dearly love to parse them and get some meaningful stats and hopefully graphical charts out of them, ala AWStats, Analog or Webalizer. I've tried installing AWStats onto the host but permissions problems are causing that to fail. Surely there must be a local solution? I have access to Mac and Windows boxes - can anyone talk me through parsing my logs locally? For extra bonus love - would anyone be prepared to produce a oneoff document from a couple of log files while this is being sorted out?

What does this error mean when I'm setting up AWstats?

inksyndicate — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:22:32 -0800

Anyone have any experience with setting up the Web stats program AW stats? My website uses it, and it seems pretty good, except that when I ask for specific categories I get this error message: sh: /home/cgi-bin/awstats.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied