Web log analysis and statistics

There are a number of open source web stats programs out there. Many have been around for quite some time. The big 3 are Analog, Webalizer, and AWStats. I used to be a fan of the Analog + Report Magic combination. However Analog is now quite out of date. Webalyzer was recently updated after 4 years of stagnation. I tried out AWStats which has stayed current but found its setup to be cumbersome. In looking for alternatives I came across a number of newer, and often smaller, projects. The one I tried tonight was Visitors and I am extremely satisfied with it thus far. It was trivial to setup and the results were helpful. It focuses on per IP (Visitor) stats while ignoring some other stats which would be nice like overall page hits and traffic graphs. I’m hoping that it plus Piwik might be a good solution for most websites, though I recognize that AWStats, though unfun to configure, might still be necessary to meet some needs.

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