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What is a AWstats?

11. August, 2008 5 min. read

AWStats is a freeware tool generating advanced web, stream, ftp and email statistics into a graphic environment. This server log analyser works as CGI from the command line and displays all available information contained in logs on several graphic websites.

Since AWStats often uses small parts of information files at a time, there is no problem processing large log files which also affects the speed. It is capable of analysing log files from all major server applications, e.g. Apache log (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and many other web, proxy, wap, stream, mail and some ftp servers.

AWStats is free software distributed under GNU licence. (General Public License) Refer to the exact text of the license to find out what is possible to do with the software and what is not.

AWStats can work both from the command line and as CGI, which proves extremely helpful for webhosting providers with authorisation for Perl, CGI and log access.

AWStats provide a lot, however, this is to highlight only some of their qualities. Let us take an unnamed website to show what is in AWStats for us…

Summary access statistics are a cornerstone to give a clear outline on the number of visitors and time of access to our web. This option will be greatly appreciated by e-shop owners and corporate websites operators in general for SEO web optimization. The statistics may be monitored as a summary as well as for individual months of the year , days of a chosen month, average weekday statistics and even average access hours statistics.

Summary

	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
Reported period	Month March 2006
First visit	01 Mar 2006 - 00:56
Last visit	31 Mar 2006 - 23:49
Displayed load *	1736	2177 (1.25 visits/visitor)	9988 (4.58 sites/visit)	46294 (21.26 hits/visit)	1.60 GB (771.62 KB/visit)
Non-displayed load *			34948	35975	1.03 GB

*Non-displayed load, including load caused by robots, worms or https status codes replies.

Monthly history

Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan 2006	2080	2991	15509	63835	2.42 GB
Feb 2006	1572	1928	12637	64047	2.48 GB
Mar 2006	1736	2177	9988	46294	1.60 GB
Apr 2006	1959	2509	14159	69159	2.14 GB
May 2006	2614	3246	18563	106812	7.87 GB
Jun 2006	3173	3929	11312	46206	13.39 GB
Jul 2006	2394	2914	15632	70837	10.15 GB
Aug 2006	6726	7970	26923	101113	38.37 GB
Sep 2006	2567	3552	13489	61490	6.42 GB
Oct 2006	2257	3352	29302	151385	4.38 GB
Nov 2006	1802	2690	11170	64499	1.05 GB
Dec 2006	1605	2176	10009	52687	1.18 GB
Total	30485	39434	188693	898364	91.46 GB

Days of month

Day	Number of visits	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
01 Mar 2006	83	568	3342	88.94 MB
02 Mar 2006	55	88	522	3.71 MB
03 Mar 2006	73	197	1274	36.14 MB
04 Mar 2006	36	160	771	19.09 MB
05 Mar 2006	55	284	800	8.73 MB
06 Mar 2006	68	325	1429	70.03 MB
07 Mar 2006	70	367	2034	66.75 MB
08 Mar 2006	74	432	2059	160.65 MB
09 Mar 2006	83	634	2007	93.78 MB
10 Mar 2006	70	694	2740	45.24 MB
11 Mar 2006	74	675	1985	73.05 MB
12 Mar 2006	56	319	1120	27.21 MB
13 Mar 2006	79	207	954	50.93 MB
14 Mar 2006	97	262	2635	49.09 MB
15 Mar 2006	98	387	1926	56.75 MB
16 Mar 2006	76	347	1131	82.02 MB
17 Mar 2006	67	304	1740	71.33 MB
18 Mar 2006	36	161	776	49.36 MB
19 Mar 2006	46	260	779	26.01 MB
20 Mar 2006	80	296	1272	36.24 MB
21 Mar 2006	79	311	1721	62.36 MB
22 Mar 2006	75	415	1656	128.68 MB
23 Mar 2006	83	219	1147	19.94 MB
24 Mar 2006	56	142	876	37.14 MB
25 Mar 2006	50	170	2106	35.11 MB
26 Mar 2006	44	125	532	4.03 MB
27 Mar 2006	78	409	1662	76.37 MB
28 Mar 2006	101	399	1547	76.59 MB
29 Mar 2006	79	286	1454	26.20 MB
30 Mar 2006	82	349	1224	21.54 MB
31 Mar 2006	74	196	1073	37.45 MB
Average	70.23	322.19	1493.35	52.92 MB
Total	2177	9988	46294	1.60 GB

Days of week

Day	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
Mon	309.25	1329.25	58.39 MB
Tue	334.75	1984.25	63.70 MB
Wed	417.60	2087.40	92.24 MB
Thu	327.40	1206.20	44.20 MB
Fri	306.60	1540.60	45.46 MB
Sut	291.50	1409.50	44.15 MB
Sun	247	807.75	16.50 MB

Hours

Hours	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
00	472	1883	75.06 MB
01	271	1112	27.25 MB
02	89	321	3.58 MB
03	103	446	20.73 MB
04	98	275	2.49 MB
05	191	600	16.38 MB
06	202	899	29.02 MB
07	315	1974	25.85 MB
08	690	2033	107.60 MB
09	229	917	26.04 MB
10	555	2346	102.46 MB
11	371	2577	54.72 MB
12	341	1612	41.15 MB
13	342	1775	22.29 MB
14	338	1466	43.79 MB
15	804	4750	199.37 MB
16	481	2321	52.04 MB
17	490	2217	56.18 MB
18	990	3916	202.99 MB
19	598	3633	120.83 MB
20	430	2069	97.31 MB
21	606	2607	131.99 MB
22	347	1714	54.65 MB
23	635	2831	126.71 MB

Another great feature of AWStats is the ability to identify the country of the user accessing the web. Have you launched an advertising campaign say in Poland? AWStats will give you a graphical outline to tell you whether access from the given country has increased thus giving you an idea on how efficient the campaign is.

Countries (Top 10)

Country		Sites	Hits	Bandwidth
Germany	de	3043	4873	77.44 MB
United States	us	1728	6030	68.99 MB
France	fr	1670	10221	194.50 MB
Unknown	unknown	908	3885	72.63 MB
Romania	ro	770	777	20.61 MB
Great Britain	gb	271	956	8.66 MB
Belgium	be	271	3548	51.15 MB
Switzerland	ch	127	451	8.70 MB
Taiwan	tw	121	611	2.99 MB
Australia	au	107	578	4.85 MB
Other		906	4823	867.10 MB

Guests (Top 10)

Guests : 0 Known, 1622 Unknown (unsripted IP) 1471 Unique visits	GeoIP Country	GeoIP City	GeoIP Region	WhoIs info	Sites	Hits	Bandwidth	Last visit
194.8.75.103	Germany	Unknown	Unknown	?	2418	2418	34.46 MB	28 Jul 2008 - 04:01
216.245.211.106	United States	Englewood	Colorado	?	342	342	5.85 MB	02 Jul 2008 - 16:43
64.191.59.5	United States	Scranton	Pennsylvania	?	342	342	5.85 MB	06 Jul 2008 - 14:02
89.122.29.81	Romania	Unknown	Unknown	?	262	262	17.78 MB	24 Jul 2008 - 08:45
194.8.74.158	Germany	Unknown	Unknown	?	189	189	2.72 MB	05 Jul 2008 - 04:50
41.225.151.81	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	?	174	1183	8.18 MB	19 Jul 2008 - 14:22
69.77.143.100	United States	West Jefferson	Unknown	?	143	673	17.16 MB	21 Jul 2008 - 18:17
193.253.188.84	France	Limonest	Unknown	?	125	617	7.48 MB	17 Jul 2008 - 10:57
89.122.29.128	Romania	Unknown	Unknown	?	108	108	506.10 KB	27 Jul 2008 - 07:29
89.122.29.61	Romania	Unknown	Unknown	?	108	108	506.14 KB	16 Jul 2008 - 06:29
Other					5711	30511	1.25 GB

Robots (Top 10)

46 visits by robots*	Hits	Bandwidth	Last visit
MSNBot	8305+757	252.52 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 23:30
Yahoo Slurp	292+845	2.40 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 23:41
Googlebot	797+56	3.89 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 19:23
yahoo!\sslurp\schina	370+85	888.98 KB	31 Oct 2006 - 18:17
Voyager	270+11	3.97 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 22:57
ZyBorg	268+8	124.44 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 22:45
MSNBot-media	152+85	6.24 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 22:34
\wbot[\/\-]	127+13	1.22 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 12:22
Alexa (IA Archiver)	0+64	48.94 KB	31 Oct 2006 - 19:42
Findlinks	49+13	1.73 MB	31 Oct 2006 - 20:27
Other	296+133	25.13 MB

* The robots referred to here provide load which is not displayed in connection with access, therefore, they are not featured in other graphs. Numbers following + represent successfully added load from “robots.txt”.

Visit duration

Number of visits: 2280 - Avg: 251 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	1742	76.4 %
30s-2mn	188	8.2 %
2mn-5mn	92	4 %
5mn-15mn	93	4 %
15mn-30mn	39	1.7 %
30mn-1h	46	2 %
1h+	78	3.4 %
Unknown	2	0 %

There is a lot more left that is worth mentioning in connection with AWStats, as there is indeed a lot to offer. To conclude the brief showcase there is a statistics of preferred operation systems and web browsers used by our visitors.

Operational systems (Top 10)

OS	Hits	Percent
Windows	61990	90.6 %
Linux	3861	5.6 %
Macintosh	1878	2.7 %
Unknown	660	0.9 %
BSD	15	0 %
Sun Solaris	14	0 %
OS/2	1	0 %

Browsers (Top 10)

Browser	Grabber	Hits	Percent
MS Internet Explorer	Ne	37429	54.7 %
Firefox	Ne	21553	31.5 %
Opera	Ne	6748	9.8 %
Safari	Ne	1085	1.5 %
Mozilla	Ne	598	0.8 %
Unknown	?	483	0.7 %
Netscape	Ne	234	0.3 %
Konqueror	Ne	121	0.1 %
BonEcho (Firefox 2.0 development)	Ne	72	0.1 %
Epiphany	Ne	25	0 %
Other		71	0.1 %