WebLog Expert is a powerful Apache log file analyzer and IIS log analyzer. It can help you reveal important
statistics about your website usage: activity of visitors, access
statistics, paths through the site, visitors' browsers, and much
more.
The program can read
log files of the most popular web servers: Apache (Combined and
Common log formats are supported) and IIS 4/5/6/7. WebLog Expert
can also read ZIP, GZ and BZ2 compressed logs so you won't need to
unpack the logs manually before analyzing.
Before you start
analyzing you need to create a
profile that contains the path to your log files, information
about your domain, filters, tracked files, etc. You can create as
many profiles as you wish.
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Raw log
files are files that contain information about website visitor
activity. Log files are created by web servers automatically. Each
time a visitor requests any file (page, image, etc.) from the site
information on his request is appended to a current log file. Most
log files have text format and each log entry (hit) is saved as a
line of text.
Here is a
sample of log entry in Apache Combined format:
213.135.131.79 -
- [15/May/2002:19:21:49 -0400] "GET /features.htm HTTP/1.1" 200
9955 "http://www.weblogexpert.com/download.htm" "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)"
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Most
hosters provide access to log files via FTP or control panel so you
can download them and analyze with WebLog Expert. The program can
also download log files automatically.
If you
have your own web server you can find and change log location in
the server settings.
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See also:
Log Formats
