Features/Softwares |
AWStats |
Analog |
Webalizer |
Sawmill
Analytics |
Version - Date |
7.2 - July 2013 |
6.0 - December 2004 |
2.01-10 - April 2002 |
8.5 - July 2011 |
Language |
Perl |
C |
C |
C/Salang |
Available on all platforms |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Readable sources available |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No (obfuscated sources for compilation only) |
Price/Licence |
Free/GPL |
Free/GPL |
Free/GPL |
From $99 Per Profile
Lite/Pro/Ent |
Works with Apache combined (XLF/ELF) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Works with Apache common (CLF) log
format |
All features
available with log format (b) |
All features
available with log format (b) |
All features
available with log format (b) |
All
features available with log format (b) |
Works with IIS (W3C) log format |
Yes |
Yes |
Need a patch |
Yes |
Works with personalized log format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Analyze Web/Ftp/Mail log files |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
Yes/No/No |
Yes/No/No |
Yes/Yes/Yes (850+) |
Report and update of statistics from |
Command line (CLI)
and/or
a browser (CGI) |
Command line (CLI)
and/or
a browser (CGI) |
Command line |
Command
line (CLI) and/or
a browser (CGI)
and/or HTTP API
|
Scheduler |
External (crontab, windows task manager) |
External (crontab, windows task manager) |
External (crontab, windows task manager) |
Built-in |
Internal reverse DNS lookup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
DNS cache file |
Static and dynamic |
Static or dynamic |
Static or dynamic |
Yes
(per update, or custom) |
Process logs spitted by load
balancing systems |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Report number of "human" visits |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes (Sessions) |
Report unique "human" visitors |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes (Visitors) |
Report session duration |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Not ordered records tolerance and
reorder for visits |
Yes |
Visits not supported |
No |
Yes |
Statistics for visits are based on |
Pages ***** |
Not supported |
Pages ***** |
Pages ***** |
Statistics for unique visitors are
based on |
Pages ***** |
Not supported |
Not supported |
Client IP / Cookie
Custom ***** |
Report countries |
From IP location
or domain name |
Domain name |
Domain name |
From
IP location
or domain name |
Report regions (US and Canada states) |
Need Maxmind
Regions database |
No |
No |
Yes
GeoLite City included |
Report cities and major countries
regions |
Need Maxmind
Cities database |
No |
No |
Yes
GeoLite City included |
Report ISP |
Need Maxmind
ISP database |
No |
No |
Need
Maxmind
ISP database |
Report Organizations name |
Need Maxmind
Org database |
No |
No |
Need
Maxmind
Org database |
Report hosts |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report WhoIs informations on hosts |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Report authenticated users |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Report/Filter robots (nb detected) |
Yes/Yes (793**) |
Yes / Yes(8**) |
No/No |
Yes/Yes (250**) |
Report/Filter worms (nb of families detected) |
Yes/Yes (5) |
No / No |
No/No |
Yes/Yes (4) |
Report rush hours |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report days of week |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report most often viewed pages |
Yes
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report entry pages |
Yes
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Report exit pages |
Yes
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Not ordered records tolerance and reorder for entry/exit pages |
Yes |
Entry/Exit not supported |
No |
Yes |
Detection of CGI pages as pages (and not just hits) |
Yes |
Only if prog ends by a defined value |
Only if prog ends by a defined value |
Yes |
Report pages by directory |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Report pages with last access time/average size |
Yes/Yes |
Yes/No |
No/No |
Yes/No |
Dynamic filter on hosts/pages/referers report |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
No/No/No |
No/No/No |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
Report web compression statistics (mod_gzip,mod_deflate) |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Report file types |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Report by file size |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Report OS (nb detected) |
Yes (84) |
Yes (29) |
No (0) |
Yes |
Report browsers (nb detected) |
Yes (210*) |
Yes (9*) |
Yes (4*) |
Yes (~20*) |
Report details of browsers versions |
Major and minor
versions |
Major versions by
default,
minor with SUBBROW option |
Major an minor
versions |
Major and minor
versions |
Report screen sizes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes & Depths |
Report tech supported by browser
for Java/Flash/PDF |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
No/No/No |
No/No/No |
No/No/No |
Report audio format supported by
browser for Real/QuickTime/Mediaplayer |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
No/No/No |
No/No/No |
No/No/No |
Report search engines used (nb
detected) |
Yes (228***) |
Yes (24) |
No (0) |
Yes (67***) |
Report keywords/keyphrases used on
search engines (nb detected) |
Yes/Yes (118***) |
Yes/No
(29***) |
No/Yes
(14***) |
Yes/Yes (67***) |
Report external refering web page
with/without query |
Yes/Yes |
No/No |
No/Yes |
Yes/Yes |
Report HTTP Errors |
Yes
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Report 404 Errors |
Nb +
List referer
|
Nb only |
Nb only |
Nb + List last date/referer |
Other personalized reports for
miscellanous/marketing purpose |
Yes
|
No |
No |
Yes |
Daily statistics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Weekly statistics |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Monthly statistics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yearly statistics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Custom date range |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Benchmark with no DNS lookup in
lines/seconds
(full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz) |
5200**** |
39000**** |
12000**** |
Not
calculated |
Benchmark with DNS lookup in
lines/seconds
(full features enabled, with XLF format, cygwin Perl 5.8, Athlon 1Ghz) |
80**** |
80**** |
80**** |
Not
calculated |
Analyzed data save format (to use
with third tools) |
Structured text file
or XML |
Text files with
OUTPUT option |
Flat text file |
Flat text file/MySQL/MS SQL/Oracle |
Export statistics to PDF |
Experimental |
No |
No |
Yes &
HTML (static/email) & CSV |
Graphical statistics in one page /
several / or frames |
Yes/Yes/Yes |
Yes/No/No |
Yes/Yes/No |
Yes/Yes/Yes |