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 v3+ (GNU General Public License. See LICENSE file), OSI Certified Open Source Software license.
• Version: 7.9
• Release date: January 2023
• Platforms: All (Linux, NT, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2...)
• Author: Laurent Destailleur [email protected]

AWStats official web site and latest version: https://www.awstats.org

• Features and requirements of AWStats
  • Features, what AWStats can show you
  • Requirements for using AWStats
  • Files
• Install, Setup and Use AWStats
• Benchmark
• About the author, license and support

FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS

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

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:

• https://www.activestate.com/products/activeperl/ (Windows)
• https://www.perl.org/get.html (All OS)

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/awstats.xsd              AWStats XML database schema descriptor
tools/xslt/*                        Demo to manipulate AWStats XML database

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: https://www.awstats.org

BENCHMARK

Tests and results are available in AWStats documentation, in docs/ directory.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Follow AWStats project on:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awstats.org
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/awstats_project

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT

Copyright (C) 2000-2020 - Laurent Destailleur - [email protected] - https://www.nltechno.com

Laurent Destailleur is also the project leader of Dolibarr ERP CRM Opensource project, and author of AWBot, CVSChangeLogBuilder, DoliDroid and founder of DoliCloud SaaS https://www.dolicloud.com.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.