[Wylug-help] Web stats recognisisng mime types

[James Holden]

Well... IMO awstats is the best that's out there.

Have you checked for the latest version? It's written in Perl, so I'm
sure you could add the functionality yourself.

James

Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:

>Hi
>
>We are serving a lot of sites using Zope and associated software.
>Images and files are treated just like any other object, and therefore
>there is no guarantee that the URL will end in .jpg or .gif or
>whatever.  Additionally, the sites auto-generate variants,
>e.g. thumbnails, whose URLs are something like
>"..../pagename/image.gif/thumbnail".
>
>I know Apache can log the "Content-Type" header, but it seems like the
>stats package we use (awstats) doesn't know what to do with it.  The
>problem is that we end up with very inflated page view figures because
>images are being reported as pages.
>
>Are there any decent stats packages out there (free would be great :-)
>that can recognise images etc based on mime type rather than just
>extension?
>
>Cheers
>
>Felix.
>
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