AWStats logfile analyzer 7.7 Documentation
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AWStats logfile analyzer 7.7 Documentation |
| Features/Softwares | AWStats | Analog | Webalizer | Sawmill Analytics |
| Version - Date | 7.2 - July 2013 | 6.0 - December 2004 | 2.01-10 - April 2002 | 8.5 - July 2011 |
| Language | Perl | C | C | C/Salang |
| Available on all platforms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Readable sources available | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (obfuscated sources for compilation only) |
| Price/Licence | Free/GPL | Free/GPL | Free/GPL | From $99 Per Profile Lite/Pro/Ent |
| Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Works with Apache common (CLF) log format | All features available with log format (b) | All features available with log format (b) | All features available with log format (b) | All features available with log format (b) |
| Works with IIS (W3C) log format | Yes | Yes | Need a patch | Yes |
| Works with personalized log format | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Analyze Web/Ftp/Mail log files | Yes/Yes/Yes | Yes/No/No | Yes/No/No | Yes/Yes/Yes (850+) |
| Report and update of statistics from | Command line (CLI)
and/or a browser (CGI) |
Command line (CLI)
and/or a browser (CGI) |
Command line | Command
line (CLI) and/or a browser (CGI) and/or HTTP API |
| Scheduler | External (crontab, windows task manager) | External (crontab, windows task manager) | External (crontab, windows task manager) | Built-in |
| Internal reverse DNS lookup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DNS cache file | Static and dynamic | Static or dynamic | Static or dynamic | Yes (per update, or custom) |
| Process logs spitted by load balancing systems | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report number of "human" visits | Yes | No | Yes | Yes (Sessions) |
| Report unique "human" visitors | Yes | No | No | Yes (Visitors) |
| Report session duration | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for visits | Yes | Visits not supported | No | Yes |
| Statistics for visits are based on | Pages ***** | Not supported | Pages ***** | Pages ***** |
| Statistics for unique visitors are based on | Pages ***** | Not supported | Not supported | Client IP / Cookie Custom ***** |
| Report countries | From IP location or domain name |
Domain name | Domain name | From
IP location or domain name |
| Report regions (US and Canada states) | Need Maxmind Regions database | No | No | Yes GeoLite City included |
| Report cities and major countries regions | Need Maxmind Cities database | No | No | Yes GeoLite City included |
| Report ISP | Need Maxmind ISP database | No | No | Need Maxmind ISP database |
| Report Organizations name | Need Maxmind Org database | No | No | Need Maxmind Org database |
| Report hosts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report WhoIs informations on hosts | Yes | No | No | No |
| Report authenticated users | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report/Filter robots (nb detected) | Yes/Yes (793**) | Yes / Yes(8**) | No/No | Yes/Yes (250**) |
| Report/Filter worms (nb of families detected) | Yes/Yes (5) | No / No | No/No | Yes/Yes (4) |
| Report rush hours | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report days of week | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report most often viewed pages | Yes |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report entry pages | Yes |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Report exit pages | Yes |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for entry/exit pages | Yes | Entry/Exit not supported | No | Yes |
| Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits) | Yes | Only if prog ends by a defined value | Only if prog ends by a defined value | Yes |
| Report pages by directory | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report pages with last access time/average size | Yes/Yes | Yes/No | No/No | Yes/No |
| Dynamic filter on hosts/pages/referers report | Yes/Yes/Yes | No/No/No | No/No/No | Yes/Yes/Yes |
| Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip,mod_deflate) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Report file types | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report by file size | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Report OS (nb detected) | Yes (84) | Yes (29) | No (0) | Yes |
| Report browsers (nb detected) | Yes (210*) | Yes (9*) | Yes (4*) | Yes (~20*) |
| Report details of browsers versions | Major and minor versions | Major versions by
default, minor with SUBBROW option |
Major an minor versions | Major and minor versions |
| Report screen sizes | Yes | No | No | Yes & Depths |
| Report tech supported by browser for Java/Flash/PDF | Yes/Yes/Yes | No/No/No | No/No/No | No/No/No |
| Report audio format supported by browser for Real/QuickTime/Mediaplayer | Yes/Yes/Yes | No/No/No | No/No/No | No/No/No |
| Report search engines used (nb detected) | Yes (228***) | Yes (24) | No (0) | Yes (67***) |
| Report keywords/keyphrases used on search engines (nb detected) | Yes/Yes (118***) | Yes/No (29***) | No/Yes (14***) | Yes/Yes (67***) |
| Report external refering web page with/without query | Yes/Yes | No/No | No/Yes | Yes/Yes |
| Report HTTP Errors | Yes |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report 404 Errors | Nb +
List referer |
Nb only | Nb only | Nb + List last date/referer |
| Other personalized reports for miscellanous/marketing purpose | Yes |
No | No | Yes |
| Daily statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly statistics | No | No | No | Yes |
| Monthly statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Yearly statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom date range | No | No | No | Yes |
| Benchmark with no DNS lookup in
lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz) |
5200**** | 39000**** | 12000**** | Not calculated |
| Benchmark with DNS lookup in
lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz) |
80**** | 80**** | 80**** | Not calculated |
| Analyzed data save format (to use with third tools) | Structured text file or XML | Text files with OUTPUT option | Flat text file | Flat text file/MySQL/MS SQL/Oracle |
| Export statistics to PDF | Experimental | No | No | Yes & HTML (static/email) & CSV |
| Graphical statistics in one page / several / or frames | Yes/Yes/Yes | Yes/No/No | Yes/Yes/No | Yes/Yes/Yes |