From: eldy <> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:15:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated documentation to correct comparison with webalizer. X-Git-Tag: AWSTATS_5_1_BETA~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d909cd86dc3e7b6165c2eae9a164399f82dccfc;p=thirdparty%2FAWStats.git Updated documentation to correct comparison with webalizer. --- diff --git a/docs/awstats_compare.html b/docs/awstats_compare.html index c2c6e1f3..938d82e0 100644 --- a/docs/awstats_compare.html +++ b/docs/awstats_compare.html @@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ Features/SoftwaresAWStatsAnalogWebalizerHitBox -Version - Date5.0 - September 20025.24 - July 20022.01 - September 2000NA +Version - Date5.0 - September 20025.24 - July 20022.01-10 - April 2002NA LanguagePerlCCEmbedded HTML tag Available on all platformsYesYesYesNA Sources availableYesYesYesNo Price/LicenceFreeFreeFreeFree but with adverts Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF) or personalized log formatYesYesYesNA Works with Apache common (CLF) log formatJust some featuresJust some featuresJust some featuresNA -Works with IIS (W3C) log formatYesYesNoNA +Works with IIS (W3C) log formatYesYesYesNA Update of statistics fromcommand line (CLI) and/or
a browser (CGI)command line (CLI) and/or
a browser (CGI)command lineNA Internal reverse DNS lookupYesYesYesNA DNS cache fileStatic and dynamicStatic or dynamicStatic or dynamicNA @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ Report unique "human" visitorsYesNoNoYes Report session durationYesNoNoYes Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for visitsYesVisits not supportedNo? -Statistics for unique visitors are based onPages *****Visits not supportedHits *****Pages ***** +Statistics for visits are based onPages *****Not supportedPages *****Pages ***** +Statistics for unique visitors are based onPages *****Not supportedNot supportedPages ***** Report domains/countries (nb detected)Yes (259)Yes (259)Yes (252)Yes (?) Report authenticated usersYesYesNoNo Report/Filter robots (nb detected)Yes/Yes (291**)Yes / Yes (8)No/No (0**)No/No (0**) @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ Report entry pagesYes
NoYesYes Report exit pagesYes
NoYesYes Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for entry/exit pagesYesEntry/Exit not supportedNo? -Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits)YesOnly if prog ends by a defined valueOnly if prog ends by ".cgi"Yes +Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits)YesOnly if prog ends by a defined valueOnly if prog ends by a defined valueYes Report pages by directoryNoYesNoNo Report pages with last access time/average size for CGIYes/YesYes/NoNo/NoNo/No Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip)YesNoNoNo @@ -94,15 +95,16 @@ Daily statistics YesYesYesYes Monthly statistics YesYesYesYes Yearly statistics YesYesYesYes -Benchmark with no DNS lookup in lines/seconds
(full features enabled, with XLF format, on Athlon 1Ghz)4500****?****10000****NA
No program to run +Benchmark with no DNS lookup in lines/seconds
(full features enabled, with XLF format, on Athlon 1Ghz)4500****?****39000****NA
No program to run Benchmark with DNS lookup in lines/seconds
(full features enabled, with XLF format, on Athlon 1Ghz)80****80****80****NA
No program to run Main graphical statistics in one pageYesYesYesNo
-* This number is not really the number of browsers detected. All browsers (known and unknown) can be detected by products that support this feature (AWStats,Webalizer,HitBox). -The number is only the number of known browsers for which different versions can be grouped in one browser name.
+* This number is not really the number of browsers detected. All browsers (known and unknown) can be detected by products +that support this feature (AWStats,Webalizer,HitBox). The number is only the number of known browsers for which different +versions can be grouped in one browser name.

** AWStats can detect robots visits: All robots among the most common are detected, list is in robotslist.txt (250Kb). Products that are not able to do this give you false information, above all if your site 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. @@ -114,9 +116,9 @@ to detect keywords of unknown search engines with unknown url syntax rule. Those **** This rate is for processing log records with full information (combined XLF/ELF or extended W3C log format) but you must keep in mind that all this times are without reverse DNS lookup. DNS lookup speed depends on your system, network and Internet but not on the log analyzer you use. For this reason, DNS lookup is disabled in all log analyzer benchmarks. -So log analyzers benchmarks means "nothing" because the reverse DNS lookup is 95% (even with a lookup cache) of the time used by a -log analyzer, and total time of the process will be nearly the same whatever is the speed of the log analyzer if DNS lookup is not -already made in log file.
+Don't forget that DNS lookup is 95% (even with a lookup cache) of the time used by a log analyzer, so if your host is not +already resolved in log file and DNS lookup is enable, the total time of the process will be nearly the same whatever +is the speed of the log analyzer.

***** Some visitors use a lot of proxy servers to surf (ie: AOL users), this means it's possible that several hosts (with several IP addresses) are used to reach your site for only one visitor (ie: one proxy server download the page and 2 other servers download