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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Features/Softwares</td><td>AWStats</td><td><a href="http://www.analog.cx">Analog</a></td><td><a href="http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/">Webalizer</a></td><td><a href="http://www.hitbox.com">HitBox</a></td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Version - Date</td><td>5.7 - August 2003</td><td>5.32 - April 2003</td><td>2.01-10 - April 2002</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Language</td><td>Perl</td><td>C</td><td>C</td><td>Embedded HTML tag</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Available on all platforms</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Sources available</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Price/Licence</td><td>Free</td><td>Free</td><td>Free</td><td>Free but with adverts</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Works with Apache common (CLF) log format</td><td>Just some features</td><td>Just some features</td><td>Just some features</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Works with IIS (W3C) log format</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Need a patch</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Works with personalized log format</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Analyze Web/Ftp/Mail log files</td><td>Yes/Yes/Yes</td><td>Yes/No/No</td><td>Yes/No/No</td><td>NA/No/No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Update of statistics from</td><td>command line (CLI) and/or a browser (CGI)</td><td>command line (CLI) and/or a browser (CGI)</td><td>command line</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Internal reverse DNS lookup</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>DNS cache file</td><td>Static and dynamic</td><td>Static or dynamic</td><td>Static or dynamic</td><td>NA</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Process logs spitted by load balancing systems</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report number of "human" visits</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report unique "human" visitors</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report session duration</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for visits</td><td>Yes</td><td>Visits not supported</td><td>No</td><td>?</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Statistics for visits are based on</td><td>Pages *****</td><td>Not supported</td><td>Pages *****</td><td>Pages *****</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Statistics for unique visitors are based on</td><td>Pages *****</td><td>Not supported</td><td>Not supported</td><td>Pages *****</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report countries</td><td>From IP location or domain name</td><td>Domain name</td><td>Domain name</td><td>?</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report hosts</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>WhoIs link on hosts</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report authenticated users</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report/Filter robots (nb detected)</td><td>Yes/Yes (307**)</td><td>Yes / Yes (8)</td><td>No/No (0**)</td><td>No/No (0**)</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report rush hours</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report days of week</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report most often viewed pages</td><td>Yes </td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report entry pages</td><td>Yes </td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report exit pages</td><td>Yes </td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for entry/exit pages</td><td>Yes</td><td>Entry/Exit not supported</td><td>No</td><td>?</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Only if prog ends by a defined value</td><td>Only if prog ends by a defined value</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report pages by directory</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report pages with last access time/average size</td><td>Yes/Yes</td><td>Yes/No</td><td>No/No</td><td>No/No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Dynamic filter on hosts/pages/referers report</td><td>Yes/Yes/Yes</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip,mod_deflate)</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report file types</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report by file size</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report OS (nb detected)</td><td>Yes (32)</td><td>Yes (29)</td><td>No (0)</td><td>?</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report browsers (nb detected)</td><td>Yes (89*)</td><td>Yes (9*)</td><td>Yes (4*)</td><td>Yes (<20*)</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report details of browsers versions</td><td>Major and minor versions</td><td>Major versions only</td><td>Major an minor versions</td><td>Major and minor versions</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report screen sizes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report tech supported by browser for Java/Flash/PDF</td><td>Yes/Yes/Yes</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report audio format supported by browser for Real/QuickTime/Mediaplayer</td><td>Yes/Yes/Yes</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td><td>No/No/No</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report search engines used (nb detected)</td><td>Yes (99***)</td><td>Yes (24)</td><td>No (0)</td><td>Yes (<20 ***)</td></tr>

<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report keywords/keyphrases used on search engines (nb detected)</td><td>Yes/Yes (96***)</td><td>Yes/No (29***)</td><td>No/Yes (14***)</td><td>Yes/No (<20***)</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td align=left>Report external refering web page with/without query</td><td>Yes/Yes</td><td>No/No</td><td>No/Yes</td><td>Yes/No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report HTTP Errors</td><td>Yes </td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Report 404 Errors</td><td>Nb + List last date/referer </td><td>Nb only</td><td>Nb only</td><td>No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Report 'Add to favorites' statistics</td><td>Yes </td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Other personalized reports for miscellanous/marketing purpose</td><td>Yes </td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Daily statistics </td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Monthly statistics </td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Yearly statistics </td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Benchmark with no DNS lookup in lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, standard Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz)</td><td>4500****</td><td>39000****</td><td>12000****</td><td>NA No program to run</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Benchmark with DNS lookup in lines/seconds (full features enabled, with XLF format, standard Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz)</td><td>80****</td><td>80****</td><td>80****</td><td>NA No program to run</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Reuse of analyzed data by other tools</td><td>Easy (database=described text files)</td><td>Database not saved</td><td>Not easy (database=undocumented text file)</td><td>Not possible</td></tr>

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<tr align=center bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><td align=left>Export statistics to PDF</td><td>Experimental</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td></tr>

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<tr align=center><td align=left>Graphical statistics in one page / several / or frames</td><td>Yes/Yes/Yes</td><td>Yes/No/No</td><td>Yes/Yes/No</td><td>No/Yes/Yes</td></tr>

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* This number is not really the number of browsers detected. All browsers (known and unknown) can be detected by products

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that support user agent listing (AWStats,Analog,Webalizer,HitBox). The 'browser detection feature' and number is the number of known browsers for which different

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versions/ids of same browser are grouped by default in one browser name.

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** AWStats can detect robots visits: All robots among the most common are detected, list is in <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/all.txt">robotslist.txt</a> (250Kb). Products that are not able to do this give you false information, above all if your site

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has few visitors. For example, if you're site was submitted to all famous search engines, robots can make 500 visits a month, to find updates or to see if your site is still online.

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So, if you have only 2000 visits a month, products with no robot detection capabilities will report 2500 visits (A 25% error !). AWStats will report 500 visits from robots and 2000 visits from human visitors.

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*** AWStats has url syntax rules for the most popular search engines (that's the 'number detected').

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Those rules are updated with AWStats updates.

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But AWStats has also an algorithm to detect keywords of unknown search engines with unknown url syntax rules.

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**** Most log analyzers have poor (or not at all) robots, search engines, os or browsers

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detection capabilities and less features (no or poor visits count, no filter rules, etc...).

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It is not possible to add all AWStats features to other log analyzers, so don't forget that benchmarks

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results are for 'different features'. For this benchmark, I did just complete Webalizer and Analog robots

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or search engines databases with part of AWStats database. So Webalizer config file was

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completed with this <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/files/webalizeradd.txt">file</a>, Analog config file was

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completed with this <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/files/analogadd.txt">file</a>.

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Note that without this very light add (using default conf file), Webalizer speed is 3 times faster, Analog is 15% faster).

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Benchmark was made on a combined (XLF/CLF) log record on an Athlon 1GHz.

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You must keep in mind that all this times are without reverse DNS lookup. DNS lookup speed depends on your system, network and

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Internet but not on the log analyzer you use. For this reason, DNS lookup is disabled in all log analyzer benchmarks.

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Don't forget that DNS lookup is 95% (even with a lookup cache) of the time used by a log analyzer, so if your host is not

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already resolved in log file and DNS lookup is enable, the total time of the process will be nearly the same whatever

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is the speed of the log analyzer.

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***** Some visitors use a lot of proxy servers to surf (ie: AOL users), this means it's possible that several hosts (with several

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IP addresses) are used to reach your site for only one visitor (ie: one proxy server download the page and 2 other servers download

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all images). Because of this, if stats of unique visitors are made on "Hits", 3 users are reported but it's wrong.

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So AWStats, like HitBox, considers only HTML pages to count unique visitors. This decrease the error (not totally, because

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it's always possible that a proxy server download one HTML frame and another one download another frame).

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