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<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left><b>Features/Softwares</b></td><td><b>AWStats</b></td><td><b><a href="http://www.analog.cx">Analog</a></b></td><td><b><a href="http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/">Webalizer</a></b></td><td><b><a href="http://www.hitbox.com">HitBox</a></b></td></tr>\r
-<tr align=center><td align=left>Release date</td><td>4.0 - April 2002</td><td>5.22 - March 2002</td><td>2.01 - September 2000</td><td>NA</td></tr>\r
+<tr align=center><td align=left>Version - Date</td><td>4.1Beta - May 2002</td><td>5.22 - March 2002</td><td>2.01 - September 2000</td><td>NA</td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Language</td><td>Perl</td><td>C</td><td>C</td><td>Embedded HTML tag</td></tr>\r
<tr align=center><td align=left>Available on all platforms</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td>NA</td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Sources available</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Report number of "human" visits</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center><td align=left>Report unique "human" visitors</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Stats for unique visitors are based on</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Not supported</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Hits *****</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Pages *****</font></td></tr>\r
-<tr align=center><td align=left>Report time spent on site</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
+<tr align=center><td align=left>Report visits duration</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Report domains/countries (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (259)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (259)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font><font color=#660000> (252)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes (?)</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center><td align=left>Report authenticated users</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Report/Filter robots (nb detected)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes/Yes (287**)</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font>/<font color=#660000>No</font> (?**)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No (0**)</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No/No (0**)</font></td></tr>\r
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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report most often viewed pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Report entry pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
-<tr align=center><td align=left>Report exit pages</td><td><font color=#660000>No<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
+<tr align=center><td align=left>Report exit pages</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes<br></font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits)</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>Only if prog ends by ".cgi"</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center><td align=left>Report pages by directory</td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td></tr>\r
<tr align=center bgcolor=#DDDDDD><td align=left>Report pages with last access time</td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#4444cc>Yes</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td><td><font color=#660000>No</font></td></tr>\r
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** AWStats can detect robots visits: All robots among the most common are detected, list is in <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/all.txt">robotslist.txt</a> (250Kb). Products that are not able to do this give you false information, above all if your site\r
has few visitors. For example, if you're site was submitted to all famous search engines, robots can make 500 visits a month, to find updates or to see if your site is still online.\r
-So, if you have only 2000 visits a month, products with no robot detection capabilities (all products except AWStats) will report 2500 visits (A 25% error !). AWStats will report 500 visits from robots and 2000 visits from human visitors.<br>\r
+So, if you have only 2000 visits a month, products with no robot detection capabilities will report 2500 visits (A 25% error !). AWStats will report 500 visits from robots and 2000 visits from human visitors.<br>\r
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*** AWStats has url syntax rules for the most popular search engines but AWStats has also an algorithm\r
to detect keywords of unknown search engines with unknown url syntax rule. Those rules are updated with AWStats updates.<br>\r
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<li><a href="#WarningMessages">WarningMessages</a>\r
<li><a href="#NbOfLinesForCorruptedLog">NbOfLinesForCorruptedLog</a>\r
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<br><b>OPTIONAL APPEARANCE SETUP SECTION (Not required but increase AWStats features)</b><br>\r
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+<li><a href="#Expires">Expires</a>\r
<li><a href="#MaxRowsInHTMLOutput">MaxRowsInHTMLOutput</a>\r
<li><a href="#Lang">Lang</a>\r
<li><a href="#DirLang">DirLang</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowHostsStats</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowAuthenticatedUsers</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowRobotsStats</a>\r
+<li><a href="#Show">ShowSessionsStats</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowPagesStats</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowCompressionStats</a>\r
<li><a href="#Show">ShowFileTypesStats</a>\r
<li><a href="#color_">color_h</a>\r
<li><a href="#color_">color_k</a>\r
<li><a href="#color_">color_s</a>\r
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<a name="LogFile"><b>LogFile</b></a><br>\r
<b>Version : </b>1.0 +<br>\r
+3.1 for tags %YYYY-n,%YY-n,%MM-n,%DD-n,%HH-n<br>\r
+3.2 for tag %WM-n<br>\r
+4.0 for tag %DW-n<br>\r
+4.1 for tag %NS-n<br>\r
<br># "LogFile" contains the web server logfile to analyze.\r
<br># You can use a full path or relative path from awstats.pl directory.\r
<br># Example: "/var/log/apache/access.log"\r
<br># %MM-n is replaced with month we were n hours ago\r
<br># %DD-n is replaced with day we were n hours ago\r
<br># %HH-n is replaced with hour we were n hours ago\r
+<br># %NS-n is replaced with number of seconds at 00:00 since 1970\r
<br># %WM-n is replaced with the week number in month (1-5)\r
<br># %DW-n is replaced with the day number in week (1-7, 1=sunday)\r
<br># use n=24 if you need (1-7, 1=monday)\r
<br># You can use 0 for n if you need current year, month, day, hour...\r
<br># Example: "/var/log/access_log.%YYYY-0%MM-0%DD-0.log"\r
<br># Example: "C:/WINNT/system32/LogFiles/W3SVC1/ex%YY-24%MM-24%DD-24.log"\r
-<br # Example: "/var/mylog.%WN.%DW-24"\r
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<br>LogFile="/var/log/httpd/mylog.log"\r
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<b>Version : </b>2.1 +<br>\r
+3.1 for tags %host,%logname,%time1,%time2,%methodurl,%methodurlnoprot,%method,%url,\r
+%query,%code,%bytesd,%refererquot,%referer,%uaquot,%ua,%other<br>\r
+3.2 for tags %gzipin,%gzipout<br>\r
+4.0 for tags %gzipratio,%syslog<br>\r
<br># Put here your log format (Must agree with your web server. See setup\r
<br># instructions in README.txt to know how to configure your web server to have\r
<br># the required log format).\r
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<b>Version : </b>3.2 +<br>\r
<br># Add here a list of kind of url (file extension) that must be counted as\r
-<br># "Hit only" and not as a "Hit" and "Page viewed". You can set here all images\r
-<br># extensions as they are hit downloaded that must be counted but they are not\r
-<br># viewed pages. URL with such extensions are not included in the TOP Pages/URL\r
-<br># report.\r
+<br># "Hit only" and not as a "Hit" and "Page/Download". You can set here all\r
+<br># images extensions as they are hit downloaded that must be counted but they\r
+<br># are not viewed pages. URLs with such extensions are not included in the TOP\r
+<br># Pages/URL report.\r
<br># Note: If you want to exclude your own URLs from stats (No Pages and no Hits\r
<br># reported), you should use SkipFiles parameter instead.\r
<br># Example: ""\r
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-<a name="Expires"><b>Expires</b></a><br>\r
-<b>Version : </b>3.1 +<br>\r
-<br># You can add in the HTML report page a delay to force browsers to reload page\r
-<br># if page is loaded a second time after this delay (in seconds).\r
-<br># Example: 3600\r
-<br># Default: 0\r
-<br>#\r
-<br>Expires=0\r
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<b>Version : </b>4.0 +<br>\r
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+<a name="Expires"><b>Expires</b></a><br>\r
+<b>Version : </b>3.1 +<br>\r
+<br># You can add in the HTML report page a delay to force browsers to not use cache\r
+<br># if page is loaded a second time after this delay (in seconds).\r
+<br># This parameter is not used when report are built with -staticlinks option.\r
+<br># Example: 3600\r
+<br># Default: 0\r
+<br>#\r
+<br>Expires=0\r
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<b>Version : </b>4.0 +<br>\r
<br># To avoid too large web pages, you can ask AWStats to limit number of rows of\r
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-<b>Version : </b>3.2 +<br>\r
+<b>Version : </b><br>\r
+3.2 for ShowHeader,ShowMenu,ShowMonthDayStats,ShowDaysOfWeekStats,ShowHoursStats,\r
+ShowDomainsStats,ShowHostsStats,ShowAuthenticatedUsers,ShowRobotsStats,\r
+ShowPagesStats,ShowCompressionStats,ShowFileTypesStats,ShowFileSizesStats,ShowBrowsersStats,\r
+ShowOSStats,ShowOriginStats,ShowKeyphrasesStats,ShowKeywordsStats,ShowHTTPErrorsStats<br>\r
+4.1 for ShowSessionsStats<br>\r
<br># You choose here which summary report you want to see in the main page.\r
<br># Whatever is your setup here, all detailed reports are still available.\r
<br># So if you setup to 1 only ShowHeader, ShowMenu and ShowMonthDayStats, all\r
<br>ShowHostsStats=1\r
<br>ShowAuthenticatedUsers=0\r
<br>ShowRobotsStats=1\r
+<br>ShowSessionsStats=1\r
<br>ShowPagesStats=1\r
<br>ShowCompressionStats=0 # Show report of compression stats when using mod_gzip\r
<br>ShowFileTypesStats=1\r
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-<b>Version : </b>Variable<br>\r
+<b>Version : </b><br>\r
+3.1 for color_Background,color_TableBGTitle,color_TableTitle,color_TableBG,\r
+color_TableRowTitle,color_TableBGRowTitle,color_TableBorder,color_text,\r
+color_textpercent,color_titletext,color_weekend,color_link,color_hover,\r
+color_u,color_v,color_p,color_h,color_k,color_s<br>\r
+4.1 for color_e,color_x<br>\r
<br># Those colors parameters can be used (if StyleSheet parameter is not used)\r
<br># to change AWStats look.\r
<br># Example: color_name="RRGGBB" # RRGGBB is Red Green Blue components in Hex\r
<br>color_weekend="EAEAEA" # Color for week-end days (Default = "EAEAEA")\r
<br>color_link="0011BB" # Color of HTML links (Default = "0011BB")\r
<br>color_hover="605040" # Color of HTML on-mouseover links (Default = "605040") \r
-<br>color_u="FF9933" # Background color for number of unique visitors (Default = "FF9933")\r
-<br>color_v="F3F300" # Background color for number of visites (Default = "F3F300")\r
+<br>color_u="FFB055" # Background color for number of unique visitors (Default = "FFB055")\r
+<br>color_v="F8E880" # Background color for number of visites (Default = "F8E880")\r
<br>color_p="4477DD" # Background color for number of pages (Default = "4477DD")\r
<br>color_h="66F0FF" # Background color for number of hits (Default = "66F0FF")\r
-<br>color_k="339944" # Background color for number of bytes (Default = "339944")\r
+<br>color_k="339944" # Background color for number of bytes (Default = "2EA495")\r
<br>color_s="8888DD" # Background color for number of search (Default = "8888DD")\r
+<br>color_e="CEC2E8" # Background color for number of entry pages (Default = "CEC2E8")\r
+<br>color_x="C1B2E2" # Background color for number of exit pages (Default = "C1B2E2")\r
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FAQ-COM100 <a href="#SPEED">AWStats speed/timeout problems.</a><br>\r
FAQ-COM150 <a href="#BENCHMARK">Benchmark question.</a><br>\r
FAQ-COM200 <a href="#DNS">How reverse DNS Lookup works, unresolved IP Addresses ?</a><br>\r
-FAQ-COM250 <a href="#DIFFERENT_RESULTS">Different results than other log analyzers (Webalizer, WUsage, wwwStats...).</a><br>\r
+FAQ-COM250 <a href="#DIFFERENT_RESULTS">Different results than other log analyzers (Analog, Webalizer, WUsage, wwwStats...).</a><br>\r
FAQ-COM300 <a href="#DIFFERENCE_HOURS">Difference between local hour and AWStats reported hour.</a><br>\r
FAQ-COM350 <a href="#OLDLOG">How can I process old log file ?</a><br>\r
FAQ-COM400 <a href="#MULTILOG">How can I update my statistics when I use a load balancing system that splits my logs ?</a><br>\r