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37 AWStats is a short for Advanced Web Statistics. It's a <b>free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web (but also ftp or mail) server statistics, graphically</b>.
38 This <b>log analyzer</b> works as a <b>CGI or from command line</b>
39 and shows you all possible information your log contains, in <b>few graphical web pages</b>.
40 It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly.
41 It can analyze log files from IIS (W3C log format), Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format),
42 WebStar and most of all web, proxy, wap, streaming servers (and ftp servers or mail logs).<br>
43 rizwank 1.1 Take a look at this <a href="awstats_compare.html#COMPARISON">comparison table</a> for an idea on differences between most famous statistics tools for each features (AWStats, Analog, Webalizer,...).<br>
44 AWStats is a free software distributed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" target=_gnugpl>GNU General Public License</a>. You can have a look at this <a href="docs/awstats_license.html">license chart</a> to know what you can/can't do.<br>
45 As AWStats works from the command line but also as a CGI, it can work with major <a href="awstats_whp.html">web hosting provider that allows CGI and log access</a>.<br>
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50 <font size=3 color=#665544><b>Features</b></font><br>
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52 <b>A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information</b>:<br>
53 * Number of <u>visits</u>, and number of <u>unique visitors</u>,<br>
54 * <u>Visits duration</u> and last visits,<br>
55 * <u>Authenticated users</u>, and last authenticated visits,<br>
56 * <u>Days of week</u> and <u>rush hours</u> (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week),<br>
57 * <u>Domains/countries</u> of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB, <font color=#221188>269 domains/countries detected</font>),<br>
58 * <u>Hosts list</u>, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list,<br>
59 * <u>Most viewed</u>, <u>entry</u> and <u>exit</u> pages,<br>
60 * <u>Files type</u>,<br>
61 * <u>Web compression statistics</u> (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate),<br>
62 * <u>Browsers</u> used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version, <font color=#221188>89 browsers</font>: Web, Wap, Media browsers...),<br>
63 * <u>OS used</u> (pages, hits, KB for each OS, <font color=#221188>34 OS detected</font>),<br>
64 rizwank 1.1 * <u>Visits of robots</u> (<font color=#221188>310 robots detected</font>),<br>
65 * <u>Search engines</u>, <u>keyphrases</u> and <u>keywords</u> used to find your site (<font color=#221188>The 109 most famous search engines are detected like yahoo, google, altavista, etc...</font>),<br>
66 * <u>HTTP errors</u> (Page Not Found with last referrer, ...),<br>
67 * <u>Other personalized reports</u> based on url, url parameters, referer field for miscellanous/marketing purpose,<br>
68 * <u>Screen size</u> (need to add some HTML tags in index page).<br>
69 * Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks".<br>
70 * Ratio of Browsers with support of: <u>Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader</u> (need to add some HTML tags in index page).<br>
71 * Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.<br>
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73 <b>AWStats also supports the following features</b>:<br>
74 * Can analyze a lot of log formats: Apache NCSA combined log files (XLF/ELF) or common (CLF), IIS log files (W3C),
75 WebStar native log files and other web, proxy, wap or streaming servers log files (but also ftp or mail log files). See <a href="awstats_faq.html#LOGFORMAT">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> for examples.<br>
76 * Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic filters capabilities for some charts),<br>
77 * Update of statistics can be made from a web browser and not only from your scheduler,<br>
78 * Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing system),<br>
79 * Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages,<br>
80 * Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, support DNS cache files,<br>
81 * Country detection from IP location (geoip) or domain name.<br>
82 * WhoIS links,<br>
83 * A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used,<br>
84 * Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers, great for web-hosting providers),<br>
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86 * Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection,<br>
87 * Several languages. See <a href="awstats_faq.html#LANG">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> for full list.<br>
88 * No need of rare perl libraries. All basic perl interpreters can make AWStats working,<br>
89 * Dynamic reports as CGI output.<br>
90 * Static reports in one or framed HTML/XHTML pages, experimental PDF export,<br>
91 * Look and colors can match your site design, can use CSS,<br>
92 * Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages,<br>
93 * Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit),<br>
94 * Analysis database can be stored in XML format for XSLT processing,<br>
95 * A Webmin module,<br>
96 * Absolutely free (even for web hosting providers), with sources (<a href="docs/awstats_license.html">GNU General Public License</a>),<br>
97 * Available on all platforms,<br>
98 * AWStats has a <a href="docs/pad_awstats.xml" target=_newawstats>XML Portable Application Description</a>.<br>
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100 <b>Requirements</b>:<br>
101 To use AWStats, you need the following requirements:<br>
102 * Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.<br>
103 * You must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files) from command line and/or as CGI.<br>
104 If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at <a href="http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/">ActivePerl</a> (<font color=#221188>Win32</font>) or <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html">Perl.com</a> (<font color=#221188>Unix/Linux/Other</font>).<br>
105 See <a href="awstats_faq.html#SERVERSOS">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> to have examples of supported OS and Web servers.<br>
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