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I also use Webalizer, Analog (or another log analyzer) and it doesn report the same results than AWStats. Why ?

April 26, 2017analog analyzer AWStats log report results Webalizer

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I also use Webalizer, Analog (or another log analyzer) and it doesn report the same results than AWStats. Why ?

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SOLUTION: If you compare AWStats results with an other log file analyzer, you will found some differences, sometimes very important. In fact, all analyzer (even AWStats) make “over reporting” because of the problem of proxy-servers and robots. However AWStats is one of the most accurate and its “over reporting” is very low where all other analyzers, even the most famous, have a VERY HIGH error rate (10% to 200% more than reality !). This is the most important reasons why you can find important differences: • Some dynamic pages generated by CGI programs are not counted by some analyzer (ie Webalizer) like a “Page” (but only like a “Hit”) if CGI prog does not end with a defined extension (.cgi, …), so they are not included correctly in their statistics. AWStats use on oposite policy, assuming a file is a page except if type is in a list (See NotPageList parameter). Error rate with a such policy is lower. • AWStats is able to detect robots visits.