Web log analysis software (also called a web log analyzer) is software that parses a log file from a web server (like Apache), and based on the values contained in the log file, derives indicators about who, when and how a web server is visited.

Indicators reported by most of web log analyzers

• Number of visits and number of unique visitors
• Visits duration and last visits
• Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits
• Days of week and rush hours
• Domains/countries of host's visitors
• Hosts list
• Most viewed, entry and exit pages
• Files type
• OS used
• Browsers used
• Robots
• Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find the analyzed web site
• HTTP errors

Popular log analyzers

• Analog
• AWStats
• NetTracker
• Visitors
• Webalizer
• WebTrends

See also

• Web analytics
• Server log

External links

• List @ Counterguide.com
• Software-Pointers - Directory of web traffic analysis tools

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