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What Website Stats do you use?

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  • emghemgh Member
    edited July 2018

    @sleddog said:

    @emgh said:
    Suprises me that people uses these old programs when there’s two obvious alternatives for everyone, I think.

    If you want something complete, Google Analytics. If you want something selfhosted, Piwik. Any reason for actually using anything else?

    Analytics like GA and Piwik are fundamentally different from web log analysis (e.g. awstats). A nice modern web log analyzer is goAccess - https://goaccess.io/

    The thread is called ”website stats” though.

  • emgh said: The thread is called ”website stats” though.

    ?

    GA/Piwik and server log analyzers are both methods of compiling "website stats".

  • pikepike Veteran
    edited July 2018

    cat /var/log/nginx/hostname-access.log

  • in wordpress installations, Jetpack, in other sites google analytics, and UptimeRobot for down alerts.

  • RaymiiRaymii Member

    Both Piwik and Google analytics. For server logs, the 'visitors' package. Examples for https://raymii.org: http://vps6.sparklingclouds.nl/report-lastlog.html or an older version: http://s1.spnw.nl/report-lastlog.html

  • xyzxyz Member

    pullangcubo said: Doesn't Piwik have a feature for analyzing raw logs? I haven't really used it; perhaps someone here can give a feedback regarding it vs, say, AWStats.

    Last time I tried (which was years ago, so may have changed by now), it was pretty rubbish. The importer works by making an API request for each log entry. Unsurprisingly, it's ridiculously slow. Like, it would take hours to import one day's worth of visits, whilst GoAccess could scan the entire file in a few seconds.

    Piwik really isn't designed to be used as a log analyser. Ignoring speed, you're essentially copying all the data into a database; having a second copy of the data seems kinda pointless when all the data is already in a compact log file. Also many of Piwik's collection capabilities won't work when scanning log files.

    AWStats isn't as fast as GoAccess, but it is actually designed to be a log analyser, unlike Piwik. My biggest beef with AWStats is that it isn't set up, by default, to analyse data on a day-by-day basis, and configuring it to do so does require editing some scripts.

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  • LowVMLowVM Member

    Webalizer and AWStats, Both are great.




    AWStats give detailed stats. Google Analytics is also useful.

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