RE: AWStats (was: visit counters)

My only addition here would be to ask how it computes "unique visitors." I
would imagine the best it could do is look at IP address in a time range. In
most cases this is close enough. 

However, remember that most businesses will have some sort of NAT or proxy
device so all the users behind that device will seem to come from one IP.
For example, if Ari and I both browse midrange-l we'll both appear to come
from the same IP, but we're two different people (thank god <G>). 

The only way I know of to get true-uniqueness is to use the image trick
along with both a session and non-session cookie. The session cookie will
allow you to track all the hits from a browser as a single visit (and track
their motion through the site) and the non-session cookie will allow you to
track them when they return another day.

-Walden 


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-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:18 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] AWStats (was: visit counters)

Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
> This isn't quite the answer... But with awstats, it appears like you can
go
> through just about any type of log. Unfortunately, it is written in perl.
> But if you copied that file to a *nix box and then ran the awstats... You
> can get a good log analyzer. If you want to see a sample of the output
check
> here: http://www.koldark.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=koldark.net 

Speaking of AWStats ... I've figured out a way to process stats from an 
apache web server, running on an iSeries, with awstats for very nice 
statistics.

Check out http://stats.midrange.com/awstats.pl?config=www.midrange.com 
for the current stats for the main midrange.com web page.

AWStats itself runs on a linux system ... but it gets the log files from 
the iSeries on a periodic basis to be included in the stats.

If anyone is interested in implementing something similar, let me know 
and I'll be happy to share my config file.

david

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