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What do you like best about Awstats?

It works reliably and was given to us free by the web site provider. It is simple but reliable and clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

Clients don't like that it isn't as easy to drill down reports and say it looks 'old.' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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You may have to guide your client through reading the reports as they are small text, but once they know what the reports mean, they will find them very clear and easy to compare month-to-month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analyze how many visitors come to the web site, which pages they go to, and where they are referred from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Awstats?

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages

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AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages


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1.0 out of 5
"AWStats used to be good but has since declined in quality"
The most significant upside of AWStats is the fact that it is an open-source analyzer tool. It can connect to many kinds of technological infrastru...
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5.0 out of 5
"Excellent and Exclusive Log File Analyser"
We use it in Web analytics reporting, excellent data analysis from internet services such as web, streaming media, mail, and FTP servers. Besides...
Pradeep N.
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Pradeep N.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It provides Great insights in single UI and more options like geo taking, daily visitor details"
UI & Geo Location statistics and Tags information which provides Application insights, Daily visitor views, Daily tracking would help us a lot in i...
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What do you like best about Awstats?

The most significant upside of AWStats is the fact that it is an open-source analyzer tool. It can connect to many kinds of technological infrastructure and provides various backend information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

With the advent of different analyzer tools in the market, AWStats has not been able to keep up with the technological advancement. The Command Line interface is tedious to work on, its CGI is not user-friendly, and the UI/UX design is old and has not evolved. The competitors of this tool, be it open source or paid, have made a lot of different integrations possible, which AWStats does not support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I used to handle AWStats, we were using it to determine the number of visitors on our website, what features or pages they looked at, information about the number of recurring users and decide which areas we had to work on to grow those numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pradeep N.
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What do you like best about Awstats?

UI & Geo Location statistics and Tags information which provides Application insights, Daily visitor views, Daily tracking would help us a lot in information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

UI can be much better for user friendly in visualizing the data and information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking the customer views, geo locations, visitors overview and Visualizing the data, tracking the daily visits and lots more information in getting the statistics and analyzing the data and information providing, log data also helps us in various ways in content optimization and helps in Search engine optimization.

The Daily status help us in daily analysis of data and help us in great content & location optimization.

Daily Traffic data help us in visualizing the user information as per geo locations and help us in optimizing the content and visitors requests.

HTTP & other requests are also help us in analyzing the Application stats in updating the content as per user search & categorizes.

As our application is mostly into Travel domain, the most of the data help us in content & also help us in user requirements as per the geo locations status.

Logs analysis helps us in tracking the Application requests and help us to analze the user responses and we are able to provide user based content using Search engine optimization and search content optimization.

Awstats is one of the great tools I have ever seen and this is every much usefull and I would recommend to other to use in daily operations and daily activities.

Awstats has help us in many ways and one can use this tool in many ways as per the requirements and customize the information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Junaid A.
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What do you like best about Awstats?

I liked the simplicity of querying through database to get stats. The way the requests can be searched based on details like querystring and all makes it easier to get data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

I don't remember any downside while I used Awstats. But yes sometimes we faced performance issues fetching the results due to querying the columns which were not indexed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

If you want to analyze you data like requests, response times etc., go for it. It is very easy to use and you can query the data like any database. I am sure there are other things which Awstats does other than just what I have mentioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used to get the production workloads and to identify performance issues of the platform in the company I used to work for. I have gathered data and drilled down get peak hours, customers during peak hours, aggregating response times, requests etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

Awstats is easier to use than other Analytic Tools or Log Analyzers available in the market. It gives out the basic details essential for any analytic tools like, referrer, country of origin, browser used and operating system used by the visitor. It can also track ip's of the visitor and also if the visitor is a human visitor or a bot visitor. You can also view detailed time, 24 hours, a month and so on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

You can not see real time statistics. It should be better if it has that option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Awstats is free. So you can test it out without spending a dime. If you just need basic log data about your visitors and do not want to add any more javascripts that make your site heavier, then Awstats is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Awstats is a log analyzer installed within the server itself and does not add more heaviness to the actual website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

Awstats is a basic log analyzer that works within server level. A great tool for tracking visitors without compromising the speed of any website. Data is pretty basic but all the necessary analytical components are present. Dashboard is clean and easy to navigate making it so easy to find what kind of analytical data you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

Secure and non secure data is separated. Data is not in depth for SEO purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Awstats is an excellent additional log tool or alternative tool to your main data analyzer but is not a full replacement if you are into SEO and other purposes not covered by the basic features that Awstats offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Awstats became an alternative and extra tool for me to check on data analytics for comparison with my main analytic tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

I am pretty impressed at how Awstats shows the bandwidth used by a certain visit as we are on a limited bandwidth server. It also records IP addresses of visitors and with this, you can opt out or block unwanted IP's with any 3rd party firewalls. You can also see bots and blocked them on your firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

There is still no available mobile app to access it. You need to login to cPanel or any panel you use just to look for visitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

First of all, it is free, so there is no need to worry about wasting money when it does not work for you. The data it provides is pretty basic but it is more clean and easier to find something you need to look at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Added data from server level for additional observation for security and marketing purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

Awstats is installed at server level, thus helps me out to still get data, even though basic, if there is a major error of the main site and my embedded analytics can not get data from visitors.

Does not have any slow down impact on website as it is installed directly on the server, not on the website layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

Just too basic for advance data needed for SEO and marketing purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Better install this for emergencies if you are constantly monitoring your visitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

A good analytical tool as a failover or even a great comparison tool for my main analytic tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

Installed at the server, not at the actual website, so there is no significant effect in slowing down your website, unlike other analytic tools which you need to embed their javascript files which adds more weight and slows down any website.

Data given is basic but complete in a sense that it logs almost everything instantly since it is installed at server level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

Should have the option to add both ssl and non ssl traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Great back up for your main analytic tool. Installed at the server level so, therell be no major slow down to your site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Awstats became a comparison tool to my other analytic tool. It also became my back up in case primary analytic tool is not functioning well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

Since Awstats works at server level, it accurately records bot visits in order for me to see bad bots and block them on our firewall. Yeah, moreover we use Awstats for security purposes at it accurately depicts more of the bots and visitor threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

Not a good tool for getting analytics on an in depth manner like for marketing purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Awstats is a good additional tool for analyzing visitors. It works at server level which is more better to what else is getting to your server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking Bad Bots and Ip's so I can block them from our servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Awstats?

I like how Awstats track visitors at server level, and not adding any additional weight to your website, thus not slowing down your website.

Awstats just give out basic analytical stats compared to other analytical tools but its simplicity is really clean looking and all the data are easy to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Awstats?

The only thing I hate about it is it separates http and https data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Awstats:

Awstats is good for basic data collection of your visitors, but it does not offer advance features like other analytics tool does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Awstats solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Awstats for additional data from my current analytics tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.