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AWStats Log Analyzer project (official sources)
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# 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 



AWStats official web site and latest version: [https://www.awstats.org](https://www.awstats.org)



- [Features and requirements of AWStats](#features-and-requirements) 

  * [Features, what AWStats can show you](#features)

  * [Requirements for using AWStats](#requirements)

  * [Files](#files)

- [Install, Setup and Use AWStats](#install-setup-and-use-awstats)

- [Benchmark](#benchmark)

- [About the author, license and support](#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:

-  (Windows)

-  (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:



### BENCHMARK

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



### SOCIAL NETWORKS



Follow AWStats project on:



- Facebook: 

- Twitter: 



## ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LICENSE AND SUPPORT



Copyright (C) 2000-2020 - Laurent Destailleur - [email protected] - 



Laurent Destailleur is also the project leader of [Dolibarr ERP CRM Opensource project](https://www.dolibarr.org),

and author of AWBot, CVSChangeLogBuilder, DoliDroid and founder of DoliCloud SaaS .



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 .