License: GNU GPL (GNU General Public License. See COPYING.TXT)
Version : 3.2
-Release date: 15 October 2001
+Release date: 20 October 2001
Platforms: All (Linux, NT, SCO, BSD, Solaris and other *NIX's, BeOS, OS/2...)
Author: Laurent Destailleur <eldy@users.sourceforge.net>
AWStats web site: http://awstats.sourceforge.net
I - 1) Features
A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
- * Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS,
- * Most often pages viewed,
+ * Number of VISITS and UNIQUE VISITORS, list of last visitors,
+ * Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, kb for each day and hour),
* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, kb),
- * Rush hours (pages, hits, kb for each hour),
+ * Authenticated users,
+ * Most often pages viewed,
+ * File types,
+ * Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip),
* Browsers used (pages, hits, kb for each browser),
* OS used (pages, hits, kb for each OS),
* VISITS OF ROBOTS,
- * SEARCH ENGINES and KEYWORDS used to find your site,
+ * SEARCH ENGINES, KEYPHRASES or KEYWORDS used to find your site,
* HTTP errors (Page not found, ...).
It supports the following features as well:
+ * Can analyze all log formats.
* Works from command line or as a CGI,
* Update of statistics can be made on demand from the web interface and
not only from your scheduler,
+ * Unlimited log file size, support splited log files,
+ * Reverse DNS lookup during analysis,
* A lot of options/filters can be defined,
- * Easy to install, easy to use (No compilation, no extern databases),
- * Look and colors can match your site design,
* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers),
- * Information is since the start of your web site and month by month,
- * Several languages: English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German,
- Polish, Greek, Czech, Portuguese, Korean...
+ * Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection,
+ * Several languages. English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German,
+ Polish, Greek, Czech, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean...
+ * No need of extra perl libraries,
+ * Look and colors can match your site design,
* Help on how AWStats work, tooltips on HTML reporting page,
- * Colored graphics with no needs of any special libraries,
+ * Easy to install, easy to use (No compilation, no extern databases),
* Free (GNU GPL) and distributed with sources (perl script).
III - BENCHMARK
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-This is benchmark results with AWStats version 3.1:
+This is benchmark results with AWStats version 3.2:
CONFIG: Athlon 1 GHz / Windows 2000 / ActivePerl 5.6 / LogFormat=1
-SPEED: 20000 lines in 15s with reverse DNS lookup disabled
-AVERAGE: 1300 lines by seconds
+SPEED: 20000 lines in 10s with reverse DNS lookup disabled
+AVERAGE: 2000 lines by seconds
However, benchmarks of log analyzer are made without reverse DNS lookup
because this depends on your system, networks and Internet and not on the