Webalizer
Webalizer is a Web analytics software, which works with Logdateianalyse and is under the GPL. The project was inspired in 1997 by Bradford L. Barrett. The data generated by the Webalizer statistics usually include the following information: inquiries, visits, referrers, countries of visitors and amount of delivered data. These statistics can be viewed both graphically and textually and are shown on different time scales (hours, days, months, years).
Survey
The log file analysis of a Web page is generated by assembling and combining different from the web server while the user access to log files of recorded data. In this case, usually, the following parameters are used and evaluated:
Evaluations
Webalizer produces standard with two different evaluations, an annual overview and a detailed monthly report for each analyzed month.
The annual survey contains information on the number of page views (hits ), file and page views (file and page requests ), accessing computers ( hosts ) and their number of hits ( visits ), as well as the daily average of these values for each month. For the evaluation also includes a graphical summary years.
Each of the monthly reports is set up as a single HTML page, on the one hand a monthly overview of these values (total number of hits, File / Page requests, visits, hosts, etc. ), on the other hand, a daily summary of these values for each day of the month, an hourly summary for each hour of each day, a survey by the retrieved pages by their URL, a statement by its IP address overview of the accessing computer, an overview of initial and exit URL from which the most used entry- and end URLs on the server are seen, a referrer statement showing the URLs of the pages are seen, one of which is done from the access or forwarding an overview of the search terms used, an overview of the access Web browser used, and an overview of the countries from which the access is done on our website.
Each of the above-described standard HTML Reports names the twenty most common entries for each parameter to be evaluated, for example, the twenty most requested pages ( URLs). The number of rows actually listed in each of these evaluations can be influenced by the configuration. Webalizer can also configure it to generate separate reports for each parameter, which list, for example, each user of the Site or all of the requested URL addresses.
In addition to the generated HTML reports of Webalizer can also be configured so that it delimited files generated by commas ( CSV) that contain all the data used in a report in plain text form. These files can be read into spreadsheet programs or databases and analyze them further.
Language Support
Statistical evaluations in HTML can be generated in more than 30 languages , including Simplified Chinese, Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Catalan, Korean, Croatian, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese ( for Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hungarian.
To generate reports in another language, a special Webalizer Binary for that language must be compiled.
Criticisms
- The generated statistics do not distinguish between human users and automated access a website, for example by search engine robots. The resulting reports have then of course to high traffic, compared with the accesses generated only by human users.
- The reported traffic be altered due to Download Manager undertaking the downloads from the website in parts. Any access to the status 206 " Partial Content " is counted as a separate access.
- There were up to version 2.20 no evaluation for query terms ( query); dynamically generated web pages, such as PHP pages with arguments, then can not be reported separately. Since version 2.20 it is possible with StripCGI and DefaultIndex this to enumerate separately.
Alternatives
- AWStats
- Piwik
- Analogous