Re: [cobalt-users] webalizer

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Brent Sims" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ralf Meischner wrote:
>
> } Or  can  anyon give me a hint, wich software is great to check out the
> } traffic at the virt.servers on a RaQ2 ...
>
> This is really a good question. I have one server here on which we
> have Webalizer, Anolog and a half dozen or so lessor known web stats
> analizers running. The interesting thing is that none of them agree.
> Webalize produces the highest numbers...by a substantial amount.
> I've never bothered to figure out which one is the most accurate,
> but I've long wondered if the high numbers Webalizer produces are
> the reason it's so popular.

I blame its popularity on its clean, simple output and ease of
configuration.  I'm curious, how different are your results?  Perhaps you
can post some stats side by side for several log analyzers for the same time
period?  I'm certainly curious and I'm sure others are as well.  Some log
analysis program I've used defines things like visits and hits in a slightly
different manner which may account for some variations.  Even in Webalizer,
you are able to configure things like the time between 2 accesses from the
same IP.  If the timespan between two accesses is greater than the
difference, the second access is counted as a separate visit - set this
value low enough and real-world visits could become multiple visits.  Other
possible causes of differences are which file extensions are counted as page
views, what status codes are considered page views, etc.

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