Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:20:02 -0600 From: Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com> To: andrew@squiz.co.nz Cc: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: webstats Message-ID: <366C9AE2.26FBD111@basspro.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081313300.12456-100000@aniwa.sky>
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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
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