I also use webalizer (or another log analyzer) and it doesn report the same results than AWStats. Why ?
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 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 2x more than reality). This is the most important reasons why you will find 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 has not a .cgi extension, so they are not included correctly in their statistics. AWStats does not make this error and all CGI pages are pages. – AWStats is the alone analyzer (that i know for the moment) able to detect robots visits. All other analyzers think it’s a human visitor. This error make them to report more visits and visitors than reality. This d
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