From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 7 19:24:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29853 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:24:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ethel.basspro.com (ethel.basspro.com [12.14.224.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA29847 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Received: from gateway.basspro.com by ethel.basspro.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/29Jan96-0343PM) id AA05142; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:25:45 -0600 Message-Id: <366C9AE2.26FBD111@basspro.com> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:20:02 -0600 From: Troy Kittrell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: andrew@squiz.co.nz Cc: Deepwell Internet , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: webstats References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > 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 We use wusage (www.boutell.com) for our commercial sites and it works quite well. Visit trails and all. But free it ain't, even though I recommend it highly. -- Troy Kittrell troyk@basspro.com Internet Systems Coordinator Bass Pro Outdoors Online To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message