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Re: Ask HN: what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

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Post by nickb »

pk wrote: post #8

Started with Webalizer, switched to Google Analytics. Webalizer's ok, but it's missing a bunch of features like sane user agent string parsing (to give an overview of the browsers accessing your site). It also displays most of the stats by page hits (such as country and user agent) rather than "visits" or unique IPs, which I think is a better way to group. I've been pretty happy with Google Analytics so far - it has…

If you have $3K to spare, you can purchase Google Urchin 5/6 (Analytics was based on it) and keep all the data. As a bonus, it also analyzes log files.

Re: Ask HN: what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

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Post by rms »

nickb wrote: post #11
pk wrote: post #8

Started with Webalizer, switched to Google Analytics. Webalizer's ok, but it's missing a bunch of features like sane user agent string parsing (to give an overview of the browsers accessing your site). It also displays most of the stats by page hits (such as country and user agent) rather than "visits" or unique IPs, which I think is a better way to group. I've been pretty happy with Google Analytics so far - it has…

If you have $3K to spare, you can purchase Google Urchin 5/6 (Analytics was based on it) and keep all the data. As a bonus, it also analyzes log files.

Free trial for Urchin 6? http://www.google.com/urchin/download.html

Re: Ask HN: what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

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Post by dangrossman »

I'm using W3Counter (http://www.w3counter.com). It's like Google Analytics minus the 1-24 hour delay, and all the goodness that comes from realtime reporting. But I keep GA installed as well for some of the more detailed back-reporting it doesn't have.

Re: Ask HN: what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

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Post by antirez »

davidw wrote: post #15

I use 'visitors' ( http://www.hping.org/visitors/ ), which was written by my friend, YC.news visitor antirez. I tried Google Analytics too, but found it kind of annoying in that it's sort of a pain to get the information I want.

Thanks David, note that in most debian-based distributions all you need is apt-get install visitors.

Edit: Also if you could like to play with real-time analysis to get detailed information about how your users are interacting with your web site please feel free to write me at antirez -at- gmail ~dot~ com for a free invitation for http://lloogg.com

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