Site traffic

[Dalma]

I am currently hosting my own site on a typical LAMP server. Previous vb's that I managed were on hosted servers with decent tools for analyzing server traffic. Can anyone recommend some tools to analyze my traffic? Currently I only have the apache2 access logs which are quite verbose and I would need to create some form of analsis tool to make use of them. In particular I'm seeking hourly daily and monthly unique hits.

[snakes1100]

webalizer, awstats, but there are many to use.

[kermit2]

Personally I like awstats, although it can be a bit confusing at first because there are different ways of implementing it. I use an entry in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 to build the stats each day just before the logs are rotated, then output the stats as static pages to a password protected, web-accessible dir. Certainly awstats would give you the hourly/daily/monthly hits (plus a lot more)

[Dalma]

Thank you I will investigate awstats.

[snakes1100]

Be forewarned, awstats is a pig on resources, as is webalizer when it comes to huge log files.

If you do 20gigs + of traffic a day, you will want to cron awstats/webalizer to build the stats hourly, not once a day.