Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:28:46 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: webstats Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081313300.12456-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981207153320.009c56f0@mail1.dcomm.net>
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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Deepwell Internet wrote: > Hi, > I'm running a freebsd 3.0 machine with apache as our webserver. I > notice there are many packages available to run webstatistics and I was > wondering what the recommendations were. I'm looking to put this in a cron > job monthly (or possibly weekly if there is enough demand) > > What packages are best? What's good depends on what sort of information you want. We run a news site, and the main requirement is that our journalists want to have good information on what's happening on the day. We use accesswatch. Our web server puts throughabout 80,000 hits per day, and running accesswatch every hour is not a problem. The accesswatch license doesn't allow for modification, but I run a perl script daily which parses the output and pulls out aggregate statistics for the day and puts them into a tabular format suitable for graphing. accesswatch is just for giving you a view of the days activity though. It doesn't cater to agregating over longer time periods. I've used http-analyze-1.9e from the ports collection. I'm not sure if an update was put through, but the results from that program were incorrect, underestimating hits by about 50% on our site. I'd really like to have something that did a bit of session analysis. If anyone knows of anything good I'd like to hear about it. If you do a web search rolling together all the words you'd expect might turn up in titles of server statisitics pages you'll get a good look around what people are using and what the presentation is like. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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