Accurate Web Server Statistics
I just compared the web server stats from a website I manage and using awstats and webalizer, I got vastly different results.
I know that awsats breaks up page views in to “Traffic viewed” and “Traffic not viewed”, that is pages viewed by a person and pages viewed by a search engine. But the problem is, when I add these two figures (10,791 + 12,307 = 23,098) is still way off from webalizers count of 17,118. That’s almost 6,000 page views of difference.
I can uderstand how programs are configured differently to measure unique and repeat visitors, but I can’t see how this would effect counting pages viewed. Considering a page is a page (regardless whether it is called .htm, .html or .php) in the servers web log, and both programs are reading the same log file, how can it be possible for the two programs to report different page counts.
