Hi Sluggers: I hope some people here have heard of AWStats. I have some questions regarding the stats it provides. Please note that I have looked up the AWStats documents but am not sure if I'm understanding everything properly. So I will ask here. So please confirm my understanding and queries.
Issue 1: ======== First let start with Unique Visitor. From my understanding a unique visitor is a host that came to a web site. A unique visitor can have more than one visits, and a visit can consist of more than 1 page viewed. Not let's say I connect to the internet using my ISP that uses dynamic IP addressing. If I go to my own main url site (i.e the base index.html) will AWStats count this as a Unique Visitor if the IP address changes from each connection despite the fact that I visted the site myself ? For such a visit does this unique visitor falls in the category "Direct address / Bookmarks" from AWStats "Connect to site from" ? If so then does "Direct address / Bookmarks" means I'm the one visited the site, i.e if most of the hits are from hosts that resolves to my ISP domain name provider ? Issue 2: ========= If I connect to my site via ftp or SSH is this also logged as Unique Visitor ? Does uploads and downloads counts as visits ? Issue 3: ========= AWStats has a section called "Authenticated users (Top 10)". What falls in the category "Other logins (and/or anonymous users)" ? Issue 4: ========== Cron scripts that accesses web pages not via browser but command line. Does AWStats count stats for this as hits and logged them as Unique Visitors for host that resolve to the domain name where the cron is executed ? Cheers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
