What is AWStats?
AWStats is open source (General Public License) tool that generate advanced web streaming, ftp or mail server statistics in graphical form. This log analyzer which works as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) or from command line and shows all information of log contains, in graphical web pages.
It uses a partial information file to process large log files, frequently and rapidly. It can investigate log files from all major server tools like Apache log files, WebStar, IIS and a many other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
Features of AWStats
- Number of visits and number of unique visitors, visits duration and last visits.
- Authenticated users and last authenticated visits
- Pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week
- Domains/countries of hosts visitors
- Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list
- Most viewed, entry and exit pages
- Files type
- Web compression statistics for mod_gzip or mod_deflate
- OS used
- Browsers used
- Visits of robots
- Worms attacks
- Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site
- HTTP errors
- Other personalized reports based on URL, URL parameters, referrer field for miscellaneous/marketing purpose
- Number of times your site is “added to favourites bookmarks”.
- Ratio of Browsers with support of: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader
- WMA reader, PDF reader
- Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.

















