[nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Howard White
I've been tasked to suggest web site statistical gathering and reporting for apache web servers on linux systems. My 15 minute analysis has told me that there are many mirrors amongst much smoke in this area of endeavor. Does anyone have a link to a basic primer on the subject? I have a

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I've been tasked to suggest web site statistical gathering and reporting for apache web servers on linux systems. My 15 minute analysis has told me that there are many mirrors amongst much smoke in this area of endeavor. Does

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:18 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I've been tasked to suggest web site statistical gathering and reporting for apache web servers on linux systems. My 15 minute analysis has told me that

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Tim O'Guin
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:18 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I've been tasked to suggest web site statistical gathering and reporting for apache web servers on linux systems. My 15 minute analysis has told me that

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
we use awstats, it's pretty basic but tells us what we want andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote:On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:18 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I've been tasked to suggest web site statistical

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Drew from Zhrodague
AWStats is great, unless you're monitoring gigs of logs (per day). At the web-facing places that I work in, the logs generated are too large for awstats to process in a whole working day, even on a huge box. It is also not multithreaded, and can require an insane amount of memory. For smaller

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Howard, The first step is to figure out exactly what you want to track and why. Then how often you need to run the stats? Realtime to monthly. Once you start to understand your requirements you can start to look at packages. You also might read about marketing analysis of your traffic and

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread Howard White
On 02/06/2013 06:19 PM, Wayne Fay wrote: AWStats is great, unless you're monitoring gigs of logs (per day). Another +1 for awstats if it serves your purposes. Wayne Seems someone up the company chain of command has heard of AWStats so that is what I get to learn about. Thanks

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-06 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: On 02/06/2013 06:19 PM, Wayne Fay wrote: AWStats is great, unless you're monitoring gigs of logs (per day). Another +1 for awstats if it serves your purposes. Wayne Seems someone up the company chain of