Any Good Log Analysers?

Need Quality Log Analyser for Mac

[Vetteman]

I am currently using the free Awstats traffic analyser, but it doesn't even show how many unique visitors I get per day. It only show cumulative uniques for the month, leaving me to do the arithmetic by hand. Of course its hard to look back 2 months ago and see how many uniques for a given day.

I have also tried a log analyser called "Summary" which has a nice interface, but far overstates my uniques per day by about 30% . I believe this is because it doesn't distinguish between robots visitors, worms, AOL proxies, etc.

Any ideas of a quality analyser which tries to filter out robots?

[whoisgregg]

it doesn't distinguish between robots visitors, worms, AOL proxies

Configure > Filtering > [_X_] Ignore known and likely robots

That keeps Summary from including robots in your stats. :)

[Vetteman]

Thanks that helps a bunch! I'm using a trial version, so I've only had it for 5 days.

This does seem to cut down the number of unique visitors per day, and make it more like Awstats. I feel that the more conservative the reporting is, the more accurate it is.

I don't want to be happy to have 1000 human visitors per day, while in fact it is only 800.

Are there any other filters I can apply so that I can receive a more accurate figure? Thanks again.

[whoisgregg]

Configure > Filtering > Hosts (visitors) to ignore > Any IPs and hostnames you use to connect to your site

Or alternately, you can give yourself a unique cookie, user agent string, start from a particular unknown page (initiating referrer) or use one of the other listed filters to remove your visits from the tracking.

[oodlum]

FunnelWeb is the best for Mac in my experience.

[Vetteman]

Recently, I've had several commentors on blogs hotlink my images. I'm working on how to stop hotlinking, but how can I filter this in my log analyser program?

I'm using Summary, which I've found to be an excellent program.

It seems like I'm getting many more visitors than I really am, because they are only viewing my pictures, while not even viewing my site.

Thanks!