------------- AWStats -------------- Advanced Web Statistics ------------------------------------ AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics) is a powerful, full-featured web server logfile analyzer which shows you all your Web statistics including: visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, broken links, robots and many more... It works with IIS 5.0+, Apache and all major web, wap, proxy, streaming server log files (and even ftp servers or mail logs) on all Operating Systems. License: GNU GPL (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file), OSI Certified Open Source Software license. Version: 7.0 Release date: December 2010 Platforms: All (Linux, NT, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2...) Author: Laurent Destailleur AWStats official web site and latest version: http://awstats.sourceforge.net I - Features and requirements of AWStats I - 1) Features, what AWStats can show you I - 2) Requirements for using AWStats I - 3) Files II - Install, Setup and Use AWStats III - Benchmark IV - About the author, license and support I - FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------ I - 1) Features A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information: * Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS * Visits duration and last visits * Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits * Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each day and hour) * Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB) * Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list * Most viewed, entry and exit pages * File types * Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate) * Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser) * OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS) * Robot visits * Worm attacks * Download and continuation detection * Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site * HTTP errors (Page not found with last referer, etc,) * Screen size report * Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks" * Ratio of Browsers that support: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader * Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio * Other personalized reports... It supports the following features as well: * Can analyze all log formats * Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic filters capabilities for some charts) * Update of statistics can be made on demand from the web interface and not only from your scheduler * Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing system) * Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages * Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, supports DNS cache files * Country detection from IP location or domain name * WhoIS links * A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used * Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers) * Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection * Several languages * No need of rare perl libraries * Dynamic reports as CGI output * Static reports in one or framed HTML or XHTML pages * Experimental PDF export * Look and colors can match your site design (CSS) * Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages * Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit) * Analysis database can be stored in XML format (for XSLT processing, ...) * A Webmin module * Free (GNU GPL) with sources (perl scripts) * Available on all platforms I - 2) Requirements To use AWStats CGI script, you need the following requirements: * Your server must log web access in a log file you can read. * To run awstats, from command line, your operating system must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files). * Perl module "Encode" must be available. To run awstats as a CGI (for real-time statistics), your web server must also be able to run such scripts. If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at: http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/ (Windows) http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html (All OS) I - 3) Files The distribution of AWStats package includes the following files: README.TXT This file docs/LICENSE GNU General Public Licence docs/* AWStats documentation (setup/usage...) wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl THE MAIN AWSTATS PROGRAM (CLI/CGI) wwwroot/cgi-bin/awredir.pl A tool to track exit clicks wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.model.conf An model configuration file wwwroot/cgi-bin/lang Directory with languages files wwwroot/cgi-bin/lib Directory with awstats reference info wwwroot/cgi-bin/plugins Directory with optional plugins wwwroot/icon/browser Directory with browsers icons wwwroot/icon/clock Directory with clock icons wwwroot/icon/cpu Directory with cpu icons wwwroot/icon/flags Directory with country flag icons wwwroot/icon/os Directory with OS icons wwwroot/icon/other Directory with all others icons wwwroot/classes Java applet for graphapplet plugin wwwroot/css Samples of CSS files wwwroot/js Javascript sources for "Misc" feature tools/* Other provided tools tools/webmin/awstats-x.x.wbm A Webmin module for AWStats tools/xslt/awstats61.xsd AWStats XML database schema descriptor tools/xslt/* Demo to manipulate AWStats XML database II - INSTALL, SETUP AND USE AWSTATS ----------------------------------- The documentation available for this release in HTML format is in the docs/ directory. You can find a most up-to-date documentation at: http://awstats.sourceforge.net III - BENCHMARK ----------------------------------- Tests and results are available in AWStats documentation, in docs/ directory. IV - ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT ----------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 2000-2010 - Laurent Destailleur - eldy@users.sourceforge.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, in COPYING.TXT file. If you have not received a copy of this file along with this program, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.