Awstats

Program.Difference in what is counted? Because of the differing methods of traffic tracking, Awstats can detect search engine bots that access and crawl your website to learn more about your website content, link structure, etc., whereas Google Analytics does not register this type of traffic since most crawlers and spiders don’t run JavaScript code. The Awstats program does distinguish between the visits from humans and non-humans, categorizing traffic as “Viewed traffic” and “Not viewed traffic”, where “Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes”. But, while Awstats does try to identify and exclude these non-human visits, it can’t do so with 100% accuracy. Awstats has a list of known robot/spider ips, and most of them do identify themselves as robots/spiders, but not all do.Also, Awstats counts visitors that have accessed image files or document files on your server directly, that would not have the Google Analytics code loaded, and so would not be counted by Google Analytics. If your server is using a lot of bandwidth with not a lot of website visitors, analyzing your Awstats data can be useful in determining whether it is due to “hot linking” of your images or other document files, whereby other websites are directly linking to your website images/document files. Just look under files viewed.Accuracy on counting visitors/unique visitors? Awstats counts visitors based on their IP address. So, it is not following a user who visits from multiple locations, or who has a dynamic IP address (i.e. AOL users) – essentially, it double counts as a user’s ip address changes/moves around and counts multiple users from the same IP address as being the same visitor. Google Analytics uses browser-specific cookies to track visitors multiple times in multiple locations, but it can’t track one person across their multiple browsers. Also if the user repeatedly clears his cookies in the middle of a visit, that will also count as multiple visits. So, both can have the tendency to inflate and deflate the traffic numbers.Then there is also the differing ways Awstats and Google Analytics counts a session in regards to visits. Google Analytics by default counts a session as a 30 minute interval. So if the user goes on a 30-minute lunch break in between visits on your website for example, that will count as 2 visits. Awstats counts a session as 1 hour. If a user is on your website for 55 minutes and then takes a break for 6 minutes, not interacting with your website, and then comes back to your website and clicks something, that will count as 2 visits. Visits are also counted as 2 vs 1 when the cutoff time period of

AWStats 7.0Free AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web2.8 Developer:Laurent Destailleur1 / 1DownloadFree Edit program infoInfo updated on:Mar 01, 2025AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly.It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.Take a look at this comparison table for an idea on features and differences between most famous statistics tools (AWStats, Analog, Webalizer).AWStats is a free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can have a look at this license chart to know what you can/can't do.As AWStats works from the command line but also as a CGI, it can work with all web hosting providers which allow Perl, CGI and log access.

How to access AWStats from outside cPanel post content--> 090330 Sometimes it's interesting to be able to access awstats from outside cPanel, for example if you're hosting a client's website and you want them to be able to check awstats, but without giving them access to cPanel. You'd think that this would be an option provided by cPanel itself, but as far as I know it's not.I've been doing some research and although various pages offer methods to achieve this, none of them fully worked for me (which tends to be the case when you don't really know what you're doing). Finally I've managed to get it working by mixing bits and pieces from different sources, so I've decided to post my solution here, in case it helps anyone else.This worked for me, but I don't know how it'll work in other servers and configurations. I give no guarantees, so "handle with care". :) Here's a step by step guide:Download awstats from (the latest version as I write this is 6.9).Extract the contents of the zipped file to your hard drive.Using your favorite FTP client, you're going to upload some of the contents you just extracted to the server: Upload the contents of the cgi-bin folder into the cgi-bin folder of your server (which should be in public_html). Upload the content of the icons folder to a folder of your choice, inside public_html. For example if you have a folder called img, you might choose to create a folder inside it called awicons, and upload the contents of the icons folder there.Change the permissions of the files awredir.pl and awstats.pl to 755 (you've just uploaded these files to /public_html/cgi-bin).Using your FTP client, download the awstats configuration file that has been created by your cPanel. You should find it in:/tmp/awstats/awstats.yourdomain.com.confOpen this file with a text editor, and look for "DirIcons". Change this line to point to the folder where you uploaded the icons (using a path relative to the home of your site). Following the example above, you'd write:DirIcons="/img/awicons/"It's up to you where to put the images, but make sure you