BetterAWStats 1.0

BetterAWStats was designed to server better statistics, out of the data that AWStats provides. It is not a replacement of AWStats. BetterAWStats was made to do everything AWStats can do for displaying statistics. It is using all data and language resources from AWStats, so the same translations and general features are always available also in BetterAWStats, additional features are being developed, but limited by the data provided through AWStats.
Main features:
Multi-site data
- If the path to the datafile has the files of several sites in it, all those sites can be viewed in BetterAWStats.
All Sites Data
- If there is data for more than one site, the monthly and daily history can be show for all sites at the same time.
Rolling months
- Months data chart & table now end in the selected month and show the previous x months instead of showing only the current year Jan-Dec.You can extend the 12 months backwards view to any number of months.
Rolling days
- If the current month is not finished, the daily data shows the last days from the last month. The total amount of days shown is equal to the current months number of days.
Pages & Hits have independent scale
- In AWstats, the pages charts are scaled as a 1:1 to hits. So a website with 10 images on each page would show a one-pixel high pages-bar and a 10 pixel high hits-bar for one view of a page. If you have more images (in your layout etc), the pages bar becomes too small to show any information. BetterAWStats gives each bar its own scale, depending on the maximum value over the given timespan.
Weekday data as average
- In AWstats, data for each weekday (Mo, Tue...) would be summed up. So a month with 5 Mondays would have more hits on Mondays than for its 4 Tuesdays. By building the average per weekday in BetterAWStats, you can see better how much more people come on Mondays to your site, independent how many Mondays that one month has. Also, being in the middle of the current month has less impact due to the fact that one Monday on the end of the month did not add any data to that month.
Number of Visits per Weekday
- Although this data is available, AWstats would not show it. BetterAWstats does!
Sort for any value
- All tables that show non-date related numbers are sortable for any key in the config editor
Hotlinks
- Refererrs that are generating hits w/o calling any pages are listed in a separate statistic.
Referrer & Hotlinks by Domain
- Referrers and Hotlinks are additionally shown by domain to reduce the clutter in data generated by small differences in referring URLs.
Map for domains
- A graphical map is included that shows the world with the amount of hits/pages (requires GD2-enabled PHP)
Valid HTML/XHTML strict, valid CSS
- You can switch between HTML and XHTML output and both as well as the CSS are validating according to the W3C standards
Planned Features
- These features are planned for the coming versions:
Time-charts for any item
- You will be able to see how a browser, a search engine, a url etc developed over time and compare it with other items of same type.
FTP/Mailserver logfiles
- You will be able to analyze FTP & Mailserver logfiles in the same way as you can now with webserver logfiles.
XML File data
- AWStats can produce raw text and XML data files. currently those cannot be read by BetterAWStats.
System requirements:
Server Requirements
- PHP 5.2.0 or newer
- running AWStats
- 1MB free space
Server Recommendations
- PHP with installed GD2
- htaccess protection on installation directory
- ability to change memory allocation for PHP if the site is large
User Requirements
- A recent browser version such as Opera 9, Firefox 2, IE 7 etc. IE6 is known to have problems with the layout.
- 1024x786 screen or larger
Version restrictions:
- BetterAWStats currently cannot not process XML file formats as well as any FTP, Mail or Streaming server data.