Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Tilghman Lesher
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

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Tilghman Lesher tilgh...@meg.abyt.es wrote: I'd suggest that you look into Piwik, actually. It won't help you with past data, +1 Tilghman wins this thread. I couldn't remember the name of this package, but yeah. It's awesome. It actually will help with

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
This might be a little heretical, but have you considered using Google Analytics, which involves pasting javascript into your web pages, as opposed to monitoring Apache, itself? Not the right solution for everyone, but pretty darn good for some things. Chris Chris On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:05

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Howard White
On 02/07/2013 11:06 AM, Chris McQuistion wrote: This might be a little heretical, but have you considered using Google Analytics, which involves pasting javascript into your web pages, as opposed to monitoring Apache, itself? Not the right solution for everyone, but pretty darn good for some

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Drew from Zhrodague
GA does provide a bunch of useful information. What it does not provide, is analysis of your error log. I find that looking through the errorlog is useful for fixing holes in the web application, seeing kiddies sweeping for holes, and if you've got ads, the error log is useful for seeing how

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Bruce W. Martin
Is Webalizer insufficient? http://www.webalizer.org/ Seems to give me all the stats I ever needed about our web site at work. or is that too mundane and turnkey appliance operator for you? Bruce -- Bruce W. Martin, KQ4TV Trustee for NT4UX On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Howard White
On 02/07/2013 02:21 PM, Bruce W. Martin wrote: Is Webalizer insufficient? http://www.webalizer.org/ Seems to give me all the stats I ever needed about our web site at work. or is that too mundane and turnkey appliance operator for you? Bruce Webalizer is on the short list of things to look

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:57 AM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Tilghman Lesher tilgh...@meg.abyt.es wrote: I'd suggest that you look into Piwik, actually. It won't help you with past data, +1 Tilghman wins this thread. I couldn't remember the

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: This might be a little heretical, but have you considered using Google Analytics, which involves pasting javascript into your web pages, as opposed to monitoring Apache, itself? Not the right solution for

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Webalizer is basically the same as AWstat. Those are great at handling the log analysis. Someone mentioned Google Analytics, this is good at knowing something abut the speed of getting all the content out to the client machine. Current employer is also using a tool call New relic to track a

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Bruce W. Martin marti...@gmail.com wrote: Is Webalizer insufficient? http://www.webalizer.org/ Seems to give me all the stats I ever needed about our web site at work. or is that too mundane and turnkey appliance operator for you? Webalizer is sufficient if

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: Someone mentioned Google Analytics, this is good at knowing something abut the speed of getting all the content out to the client machine. GA isn't much help without some context for executing script tag contents,

[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