Raw Logs For States

[cyberair]

I am looking for a software that can tell me exactly the State and if possible the City where the visitors come from. All I want is to upload the .gz logs manually to the software and see the State/City distribution of my visitors.

I tried downloading WebTrends and installing it in my PC. I uploaded the .gz, but when I click on view reports it says "The report calendar for this profile is currently unavailable"

Is there something simple out there?

[yerti]

As I know a new version of WebLog Expert [weblogexpert.com] can do it.

[cyberair]

Thanks for the link. I went there, but I only see reports by country. It doesn't mention anything about reports of states or cities. Can you point me to where you read that?

[yerti]

They support this feature in version 3.0 beta but you need to download additional database they provide for free at there site.

[cyberair]

Thanks, I was able to download and run it, however, the city stats don't make sense. My site is locally advertised to Puerto Rico and it is saying that I have almost all my visits from Virginia and California. Only a 4% of my visits are from Puerto Rico.

Also the general monthly stats are very different from the ones I have with Webalizer.

Webalizer
Total Visits - 17,866
Total Pageviews - 91,723

WebLog Expert
Total Visits - 39,244
Total Pageviews - 1,715,861

I wish WebLog Expert is correct :)
Is this happening to you too?

[Mardi_Gras]

>Virginia

Home of AOL.

California is also no doubt the location of a large number of ISPs.

[richmondsteve]

cyberair wrote:

My site is locally advertised to Puerto Rico and it is saying that I have almost all my visits from Virginia and California.

It's impossible to accurately determine a user's location based on their IP address. As Mardi Gras noted, AOL's corporate address is in Virginia. I'm not familiar with WeLog Expert, but I'd be surprised if it's not determining location by pulling address details from the IP block's registered organization as listed in the authoritative IP registry (for example ARIN [arin.net]).

Since many/most of your visitors are likely using IPs that are owned by an organization in a different state (or even different country) than where the user is located such reports should be taken with a grain of salt.

[yerti]

Thanks, I was able to download and run it, however, the city stats don't make sense. My site is locally advertised to Puerto Rico and it is saying that I have almost all my visits from Virginia and California. Only a 4% of my visits are from Puerto Rico.

Many ISPs (e.g. AOL) use IPs registered in these states so it seems that the program shows these states for such IPs.

Also the general monthly stats are very different from the ones I have with Webalizer.

I didn't compare these programs but I use filters in WebLog Expert to analyze access to pages only and exclude spiders so it helps to determine more accurate number of real visitors who viewed pages. But of course this number cannot be quite accurate if you analyze only log files.