AWStats logfile analyzer 5.4 Documentation |
Features/Softwares | AWStats | Analog | Webalizer | HitBox |
Version - Date | 5.4 - January 2003 | 5.30 - November 2002 | 2.01-10 - April 2002 | NA |
Language | Perl | C | C | Embedded HTML tag |
Available on all platforms | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
Sources available | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Price/Licence | Free | Free | Free | Free but with adverts |
Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF) or personalized log format | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
Works with Apache common (CLF) log format | Just some features | Just some features | Just some features | NA |
Works with IIS (W3C) log format | Yes | Yes | Need a patch | NA |
Update of statistics from | command line (CLI) and/or a browser (CGI) | command line (CLI) and/or a browser (CGI) | command line | NA |
Internal reverse DNS lookup | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
DNS cache file | Static and dynamic | Static or dynamic | Static or dynamic | NA |
Process logs spitted by load balancing systems | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Report number of "human" visits | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Report unique "human" visitors | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Report session duration | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for visits | Yes | Visits not supported | No | ? |
Statistics for visits are based on | Pages ***** | Not supported | Pages ***** | Pages ***** |
Statistics for unique visitors are based on | Pages ***** | Not supported | Not supported | Pages ***** |
Report countries | From IP location or domain name | Domain name | Domain name | ? |
Report hosts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WhoIs link on hosts | Yes | No | No | No |
Report authenticated users | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Report/Filter robots (nb detected) | Yes/Yes (304**) | Yes / Yes (8) | No/No (0**) | No/No (0**) |
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 | ? |
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 | No |
Report pages with last access time/average size | Yes/Yes | Yes/No | No/No | No/No |
Dynamic filter on hosts/pages/referers report | Yes/Yes/Yes | No/No/No | No/No/No | No/No/No |
Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip,mod_deflate) | Yes | No | No | No |
Report file types | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Report by file size | No | Yes | No | No |
Report browsers (nb detected) | Yes (78*) | Yes (9*) | Yes (4*) | Yes (<20*) |
Report details of browsers versions | Major and minor versions | Major versions only | Major an minor versions | Major and minor versions |
Report OS (nb detected) | Yes (31) | Yes (29) | No (0) | ? |
Report search engines used (nb detected) | Yes (90***) | Yes (24) | No (0) | Yes (<20 ***) |
Report keywords/keyphrases used on search engines (nb detected) | Yes/Yes (93***) | Yes/No (29***) | No/Yes (14***) | Yes/No (<20***) |
Report HTTP Errors | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Report 404 Errors | Nb + List last date/referer | Nb only | Nb only | No |
Report 'Add to favorites' statistics | No | No | No | No |
Other personalized reports for miscellanous/marketing purpose | Yes | No | No | No |
Daily statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Monthly statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Yearly statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Benchmark with no DNS lookup in lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, on Athlon 1Ghz) | 4500**** | ?**** | 12000**** | NA No program to run |
Benchmark with DNS lookup in lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, on Athlon 1Ghz) | 80**** | 80**** | 80**** | NA No program to run |
Graphical statistics in one page / several / or frames | Yes/Yes/Yes | Yes/No/No | Yes/Yes/No | No/Yes/Yes |