The Webserver grows – bring on AWStats

No good having a blog if I can’t justify my own sense of importance by seeing just how many people hang on my every word. (You’ll be pleased to know that the count is currently 8 different people ;) )

So, in comes AWStats to analyse my web logs. Its not a bad little package. I’ve used a few tools over the years to do this sort of thing for various clients – Analog and Webalizer come to mind immediately. Of the three, Webalizer was the easiest to install and get things up and running quickly. Analog was very customisable, but lacked a bit of “sizzle”. So far, it seems that AWStats sits between these two – very comprehensive reporting capabilities, and a reasonably nice look. But the cost of that is a bit of a fiddle to get things running.

All in all, though, not too hard. Certainly worth a look, and probably my preference out of the three tools.

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