How can I keep statistics about my web server?

Wusage

Wusage, written by the author of the FAQ, offers configurable reports on the popularity of your documents, the sites that visit you, the peak hours of access to your site, and more. Sites and documents can be specifically ignored or allowed in the reports. Reports are generated in HTML with tables (optional) and full-color inline graphs. Version 4.0 is not free, but is available at one third of the regular price to educational institutions and nonprofit organizations. Available for over 15 Unix platforms, plus DOS, OS/2, and Windows 95 and NT. See the Wusage home page (URL is http://www.boutell.com/wusage/ ) for more information, or obtain Wusage by anonymous FTP from ftp.boutell.com in the directory pub/boutell/wusage.

net.Analysis

The net.Analysis package offers a real-time look at the activity on your web server. Analysis is performed on your local PC and the package can interact with Excel and other tools. <URL:http://www.netgen.com/>

WebTrends

WebTrends is a server log analysis package for the Microsoft Windows platform. Although it runs under Windows, WebTrends can analyze logs generated by any web server that outputs one of the well-known log formats. <URL:http://www.egsoftware.com/webtrend.htm>

Combined Log Handling System

The Combined Log Handling System is a log analyzer written in Perl which is able to read the logs of many different server packages, including ftp, gopher, several web server flavors, archie, and others. The system converts log entries to a single format and providing summary data (URL is <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/tools/www/logtools/> ).

MK-Stats

MK-Stats produces impressive server statistics reports in HTML, including high-gloss inline image graphs. MK-Stats analyzes all server logs, including the referer log (the log of pages from which your site was accessed) and the error log. Written in Perl. Shareware. <URL:http://web.sau.edu/~mkruse/mkstats/index.html>

getstats

getstats is a versatile log analyzer, written in C, which provides reports for various time periods with a high degree of flexibility. Add-on packages have been written to generate reports in HTML and also to generate graphs. You can access the getstats home page for more information (URL is http://www.eit.com/software/getstats/getstats.html ), or obtain the package by anonymous FTP from ftp.eit.com in the directory /pub/web.software/getstats.

WebStat

WebStat is a package written in the language Python which supplies statistics on usage by domain, country, etc., with daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports available. You will need Python in order to use it. See the WebStat home page (URL is http://www.pegasus.esprit.ec.org/people/sijben/statistics/advertisment.html ) for details, or obtain Python from ftp.cwi.nl in the directory /pub/python and WebStat from ftp.pegasus.esprit.ec.org in the directory /pub/misc.

WOA

WOA is a server access counter program which counts document accesses and also provides information about the sites which accessed each document. WOA generates HTML output and is written in Tcl and C. <URL:http://www.lbl.gov/~sls/woa/woa.html>

wwwstat

wwwstat is a full-featured log analyzer written in the language Perl. (See the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc for more information about the language.) See the wwwstat home page (URL is http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat/) for more information, or obtain the package by anonymous FTP from liege.ics.uci.edu in the directory /pub/arcadia/wwwstat. See also gwstat (URL is http://dis.cs.umass.edu/stats/gwstat.html ), a package which produces GIF graphs from the output of wwwstat.

bert

Bert is an acronym for Browser-log Extraction and Reporting Tool. It takes the agent_log and gives information about which browsers people have been using to access your site with. You can access the bert home page for more information (URL is <URL:http://onyx.slu.edu/dylan/bert.html> ).

Quickstats

Quickstats is a straightforward log analysis package, oriented toward simple queries such as the popularity of a particular page. Quickstats can also ignore specific sites, among other options. Check out the QuickStats home page: <URL:http://spwww.mcit.med.umich.edu/~jauderho/scripts/quickstats.html>

ErrorChk

Unlike most log statistics programs, ErrorChk analyzes and reports on the contents of the error log created by the NCSA server. This is useful as a means of diagnosing server problems. (URL is <URL: http://coney.gsfc.nasa.gov/Syeds/software/errorchk.html> )

Snowhare's Log Analysis Tools

Snowhare (Benjamin Franz) has made a suite of log analysis tools written in Perl available at <URL:http://www.netimages.com/~snowhare/utilities/> which include graphical reports.

analog

Analog is a server log analysis package which emphasizes simplicity of installation, speed and attractive results. See <URL:http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/> for more information.