[Phpwm] Web log analyser
Reuben Pearse
reuben.pearse at pslconnect.com
Tue Nov 10 10:03:58 UTC 2009
Dave,
I'm interested to find out more about the mod_rewrite rules to pipe all
page requests through a single PHP page.
Do you have an example .htacess file?
Also does anyone have a PHP file that creates log files in the same format
as Apache access_log files?
We use AWStats on a number of sites for processing logfiles from Apache,
IIS and Domino. It's especially useful for spotting website errors (i.e.
404s) and hack attempts. It's also good for tracking the bandwidth usage on
a site (something you don't get on Google Analytics). The "ExtraSection"
functionality is good for creating reports that show things like the Top
100 downloads.
There was a good article in issue 189 of the .net magazine that detailed
how to track downloads (and other specific events) using Google Analytics
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Reuben Pearse
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Mike,
Sounds like you have access to the server to be able to analyse the logs so
you may also be in control of apache, most of the log analysers I've ever
looked at are guff....
I'd go with Google analytics and there is a way you can do this without
getting the designers to implement your tracking code in there sub domains
or micro sites.
Firstly us apache mod_rewrite rules to pipe all page requests through a
single PHP page, which then use the request URI to show the appropriate
page from the sub site.
Secondly if you then use the output buffering in PHP you will be able to
generate the whole page and then modify from your centralised pass through
page, by modify I mean inject your google analytics tracking code before
the end of the body tag.
All sub sites then tracked through one account.
Just a though
Dave
Mike Tipping wrote:
Yes I've used googles download tracking before but this site is
actually a
collection of sites under the same domain all done by different
designers so
getting them to add google tracking code isn't going to work.
It needs to be logfile analysis.
Cheers
Mike
On 6/11/09 12:06, "Stephen Orr" <steve at stephenorr.co.uk> wrote:
You can set up Google Analytics to track file downloads too -
I'm
pretty sure there's information on how to do that in their
docs.
Obviously, it doesn't work if you're doing direct downloads,
only if
you're going through a page first which is serving the file
(but in
reality, you probably should be doing that anyway, precisely to
enable
you to gather these sorts of statistics).
I don't know of anything better than AWstats for log file
analysis -
I'm sure there's products out there, but it's just not
something I've
ever needed to study.
2009/11/6 Mike Tipping <mike at etuna.co.uk>:
I need a web stats package for a big site.
Currently I use AWStats - but that only gives an overview
of the top pages
and Google Analytic - but that doesn't track file
downloads.
Can anyone recommend something that works through log
file analysis and
gives me the access stats for everything not just the top
50 pages.
Cheers
Mike
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