Log analyzers

The best (but also cheap) log analyzers

[Andre123]

Hi all,

I am looking at buying/downloading a log analyzer for my websites. Any suggestions on which one I should go for? The are millions out there to choose from, but which one do ou suggest?

Thanks,
Andre.

[j4mes]

Well, I use Awstats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ [awstats.sourceforge.net]) which is free and open-source (GNU GPL), and is very pretty to look at :)

[netscan]

Check this topic

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[stef25]

am i the only one that thinks awstats looks awfully complicated to set up?

[karmov]

Awstats certainly looks complicated but it's really not all that bad if you take your time and read the documentation.

[Even_Steven]

Analog is the standard log analyzer for most webmasters, and is free.

[photon]

Webalizer is also free.

[Larryhat]

" Awstats certainly looks complicated .."

Boy, I'll say. Maybe I'm a dolt, but I couldn't even figure out whether AWstats lives on my home PC, or resides on my host ISP servers. This is not a trivial matter.

I would need somebody to walk me thru this. The Setup page starts right off asking what operating system the server uses (the suggested names went in one eye and out the other). I have no idea. I wrote in straight HTML and upload via FTP. Getting my ACCESS_LOG files is like pulling teeth on a dial-up connection. I have this horrendous 2-3 GB download which turns out to be a .gz file. Trying to convert that to .zip or .txt, 99% of the info is lost and I only see the first day of results!

Extremely frustrating. I need to see those logs to find deep-linking creeps for one thing. My site is non-commercial and low budget, but gets fairly good traffic. Any suggestions are most welcome.

Best - Larry

[sem4u]

I have been using Funnel Web Analyzer recently. It gives you the basics you need and is free.

[rmassi]

AWstat is to run on the host and is not simple or quick to configure.

My suggestion to keep it simple and cheap is webalizer for windows.
You have to download your log to your PC and run it.
Then you open the resulting html file.

my .02

Max
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[edited by: Woz at 8:49 am (utc) on June 28, 2004]
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[Leosghost]

Errmmm ..I always thought that analysers came included with the hosting package ...you should have at least webalizer and AWS stats on offer from your host if they have cpanel installed ..in which case they are already configured for you ..
If not ..change hosts?