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<br><br><H1 style="font: 26px arial,helvetica,sanserif">What is AWStats / Features</H1>
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<br><a name="FEATURES"></a><br>
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<font size=3 color=#665544><b>Features</b></font><br>
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<b>A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information</b>:<br>
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* Number of <u>visits</u>, and number of <u>unique visitors</u>,<br>
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* <u>Visits duration</u> and last visits,<br>
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* <u>Authenticated users</u>, and last authenticated visits,<br>
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* <u>Days of week</u> and <u>rush hours</u> (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week),<br>
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* <u>Domains/countries</u> of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB, <font color=#221188>269 domains/countries detected</font>),<br>
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* <u>Hosts list</u>, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list,<br>
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* <u>Most viewed</u>, <u>entry</u> and <u>exit</u> pages,<br>
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* <u>Files type</u>,<br>
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* <u>Web compression statistics</u> (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate),<br>
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* <u>Browsers</u> used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version, <font color=#221188>89 browsers</font>: Web, Wap, Media browsers...),<br>
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* <u>OS used</u> (pages, hits, KB for each OS, <font color=#221188>34 OS detected</font>),<br>
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* <u>Visits of robots</u> (<font color=#221188>310 robots detected</font>),<br>
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* <u>Search engines</u>, <u>keyphrases</u> and <u>keywords</u> used to find your site (<font color=#221188>The 109 most famous search engines are detected like yahoo, google, altavista, etc...</font>),<br>
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* <u>HTTP errors</u> (Page Not Found with last referrer, ...),<br>
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* <u>Other personalized reports</u> based on url, url parameters, referer field for miscellanous/marketing purpose,<br>
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* <u>Screen size</u> (need to add some HTML tags in index page).<br>
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* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks".<br>
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* Ratio of Browsers with support of: <u>Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader</u> (need to add some HTML tags in index page).<br>
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* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.<br>
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<b>AWStats also supports the following features</b>:<br>
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* Can analyze a lot of log formats: Apache NCSA combined log files (XLF/ELF) or common (CLF), IIS log files (W3C),
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WebStar native log files and other web, proxy, wap or streaming servers log files (but also ftp or mail log files). See <a href="awstats_faq.html#LOGFORMAT">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> for examples.<br>
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* Works from command line and from a browser as a CGI (with dynamic filters capabilities for some charts),<br>
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* Update of statistics can be made from a web browser and not only from your scheduler,<br>
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* Unlimited log file size, support split log files (load balancing system),<br>
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* Support 'nearly sorted' log files even for entry and exit pages,<br>
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* Reverse DNS lookup before or during analysis, support DNS cache files,<br>
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* Country detection from IP location (geoip) or domain name.<br>
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* A lot of options/filters and plugins can be used,<br>
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* Multi-named web sites supported (virtual servers, great for web-hosting providers),<br>
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* Cross Site Scripting Attacks protection,<br>
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* Several languages. See <a href="awstats_faq.html#LANG">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> for full list.<br>
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* No need of rare perl libraries. All basic perl interpreters can make AWStats working,<br>
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* Graphical and framed reports,<br>
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* Look and colors can match your site design, can use CSS,<br>
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* Help and tooltips on HTML reported pages,<br>
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* Easy to use (Just one configuration file to edit),<br>
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* Absolutely free (even for web hosting providers), with sources (<a href="awstats_license.html">GNU General Public License</a>)<br>
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* Available on all platforms,<br>
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* AWStats has a <a href="pad_awstats.xml" target=_newawstats>XML Portable Application Description</a>.<br>
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<b>Requirements</b>:<br>
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To use AWStats, you need the following requirements:<br>
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* Your server must log web access in a log file you can read.<br>
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* You must be able to run perl scripts (.pl files) from command line and/or as CGI.<br>
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If not, you can solve this by downloading last Perl version at <a href="http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/">ActivePerl</a> (<font color=#221188>Win32</font>) or <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html">Perl.com</a> (<font color=#221188>Unix/Linux/Other</font>).<br>
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See <a href="awstats_faq.html#SERVERSOS">AWStats F.A.Q.</a> to have examples of supported OS and Web servers.<br>
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