Log Analysis Programs  

What do they do?

Create a statistical report from the web log

What programs are available?

• Analog [U.S. Mirror] [Example]
  • A very popular program (the most popular according to GVU survey)
  • Missing target in referers, that is, it doesn't tell you what the refering page was linking to

• mkstats [Example]
  • Another popular program
  • Much more thorough than Analog, but uses a lot more CPU and memory to run

• Wusage [Example]
  • A lot of statistical options, including bar- and pie-charts, and click-trails.
  • The author is Tom Boutell, also the author of the popular GD utilities, mapedit, and the original maintainer of the WWW FAQ.

Where to find more reports?

[Yahoo]