Logs analyzers ¶

Logs analyzers can analyze Apache logs or other webservers and provide reports about stuff like:

• 💎 URLs with the most visits
• 🛣️ Referring URLs (The URL a visitor was on before coming to your site)
• 🌍 Visitor geography statistics (IP geolocation...)
• 🔥 HTTP response codes (e.g., 200, 404) for URLs
• 🕒 Time spent on pages
• 💻 Devices, browsers, and operating systems used by visitors
• 🚀 The fastest or 🐢 the slowest loading pages
• ...

Some log analyzers

• AWStats
• Webalizer
• GoAccess
• Splunk
• ...

Advanced Web Statistics (0.3k ⭐, AWStats) is an open-source log file analyzer supporting many log formats.

$ sudo apt-get install htmldoc
$ wget https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-7.8.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/awstats
$ sudo mv awstats-7.8/* /usr/local/awstats

You need to generate config files:

$ cd /usr/local/awstats/
$ # Possible answers:
$ # none, yes, website_URL_or_name, /etc/awstats
$ ./tools/awstats_configure.pl
$ cat /etc/awstats/awstats.website_URL_or_name.conf

Before generating a report, you need to update the database:

$ sudo perl wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=website_URL_or_name -update

To generate a report (ex: for every month of 2020):

$ sudo perl /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -config=website_URL_or_name -month=all -year=2020 -dir=/tmp/ -buildpdf=/usr/bin/htmldoc
$ xdg-open /tmp/awstats.website_URL_or_name.pdf