“Nearly everyone who runs a web site wants to know ‘How am I
doing?’ How many hits am I getting? Which of my pages are the most
popular? How are visitors finding my site? Is anybody else linking
to me? Of course, all of the answers are captured in the web
server’s logs, so the question ultimately becomes ‘What analysis
software should I use?’“There are lots of choices. There are several expensive
commercial solutions, such as Webtrends (which recently dropped
Linux support), and an even larger number of open source options.
Most of the free solutions are written in Perl–a natural choice
for a text processing-intensive job like log analysis, but also a
CPU hog…”
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