Just upgrading from awstats 6.4 to 6.6 tonite.
Time to also update the MaxMind GeoIP database. Actually there’s 3 free ones now: GeoIP.dat, GeoLiteCity.dat and GeoIPASNum.dat.
Not much new in awstats, although there are breakdowns by Linux distro and city.
I’m also using antezeta’s more comprehensive robots.pm file – seems to be about a year ahead of the file included with awstats, or about 15% more robots.
Awstats is a good log analyzer, though it doesn’t do clicktrail analysis like expensive commercial software such as Omniture can do.
Awstats still helps you spot:
- Google AdWords click fraud
- broken links
- deep-linkers
- abusive users and bots
- downtime
- search keywords
- competitors viewing your site.
Awstats
MaxMind.com
MaxMind database downloads
antezeta.com: GeoIP Information for AWStats
antezeta.com: Enhanced Robots.pm for AWStats
