awstats or webalizer ?

Wich one is most accurate ?

 

Awstats is more accurate then webalizer but one problem is that awstats takes too much server load when updating stats specially if you have big sites then it will take too much server load to update stats.
Saad

 

Ok thanks. Its updating once a day right ?

 

Depends on your server settings.If you have root acess you can set it up yourself..
Saad

 

Hi,

Both are quite accurate, as they basically use the same log file information. By far, I prefer the AWStats reports (better global overview and more details).

Using AWStats includes two steps:
1° read the log file, analyze it and generate the internal data base (intermediate data file)
2° read the internal data base and generate the reports

Step 1 must be performed periodically. For example, once a day in the middle of the night. It can also be performed every 15 minutes for a kind of real time stats. You decide about this depending on your expectations and on the load it creates.

Step 2 can be performed in two ways. Either you generate the reports "live" every time you look at the stats, either you create static HTML files with the reports immediately after each update of the intermediate data files.

This flexibility makes AWStats usable in almost every web server environment.

Jean-Luc

 

I run awstats every 10 minutes. I find accuracy comes with the list of spiders you have in the config. If you have an old list then it counts some spiders as actual visitors and skews the figures. Just make sure you update the config files as soon as they come out... or manually and that will give you a more accurate stats breakdown.

 

i generally use awstats, hardly i check webalizer
its been more then 2-3 years with awstats

 

I tried AWStats but couldn't get used to it. I had to go back to webalizer.

Although lately I've been using Google Analytics. It's better than both of the above stat scripts combined.

 

Get Google Analytics (just insert a code and you're off) and compare with both.

 

There are good points with Google Analytics and weaknesses, like:
- no information about robots visiting your site
- no information about hits on images, movies and other multimedia
- no information about bandwidth

Jean-Luc

 

I like awstats over webalizer, information seems more organized... webalizer always reports more traffic if you need to send someone some stats... turning of dns resolution in awstats will speed up the procesing time signifcantly... I also use google analylitcs, which I like the best, only drawback with google is that it doesn't give the entire referrer....

 

I myself prefer Awstats just because of the way it is set out.

 

Awstats is much much prettier. The aesthetics is a lot higher imho

 

I much prefer Awstats. Google Analytics is even better.

 

I've just started using all three (Webalizer, AWStats, and Google). I'm not completely satisfied with any of them, because I can't seem to locate the info I need. Most importantly, I'm looking for which search engines are referring important keyword phrases. I've decided to try shopping around for other options, although I figure I'll probably have to pay extra for it. I'd welcome recommendations if anyone has them.

 

Where does this information come from?

 

These extra sections for AWStats show Search Keywords/Phrases by Search Engine. The extra sections must be added in your AWStats config file.

Jean-Luc

 

If you have setup correct there are both reliable and good Personal prefer awstat for the interface

 

my awstats and webalizer has always varied, on all the websites i run, different domain, different servers, but number of visits and hits is not the same... i tried google analytics and it shows even third version of results...well, i love awstats, so i stick to it

 

datasource is the same - so both should have about the same accuracy... but awstats provide much much more analysed data as compared to webalizer... so it's almost exclusively awstats for me