Best Apache Log Analyzer Plugin? [closed]

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What is the best apache log analyzer plugin for WordPress?

Requirements: should produce all reports as available in flashstats: http://www.maximized.com/products/flashstats2006/

Im looking for things such as:

  • files that have the highest impact on bandwidth usage,
  • potential leechers,
  • bad robots, etc…

(on posting it said ‘the question you are asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed…’ no idea why, im really looking for a plugin that gives really a load of reports preferably multisite wide reporting so that i can see which sites use the highest resources).

a little update:

There are analyzers based on embedded elements in a page, the counters and the counter 2.0: pretty complete list: http://tellertest.com/tellers.php. There are many plugins for each of them (currently clicky is #1 and GA is #5) and even so much blockers: http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=block+google+analytics

There are also log file analyzers like e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software

I think the first class is more for marketing and the second class more for technical people.

I think personally that the second class is more useful than the first class of analyzing what is happening on a server but maybe i am wrong.

Analyzing data can produce infinite reports depending on imagination.

Therefore I was wondering if there was a WordPress specific weblog-weblog Analyzer which among other has Apache logs / Syslogs / Other OS logs as data input. There are 69 pages when i search for ‘statistics’ in the WordPress Plugin dir….

If not, maybe it is interesting BI addon to create.

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“best apache log analyzer plugin for WordPress”

This is a joke question, right?

If not, no offense, but you’re probably new to the web. And if so, you probably should know that Apache logs actually pick up and log:

  • Search Engine bots (not just Google: any bot, and there are many, many, many…)
  • Comment spam bots
  • Ping spam bots
  • Referral spam bots
  • Other spam bots
  • More spam bots
  • Did I mention spam bots yet?
  • Oh yeah, there might be a few more I forgot…

Seriously though, the only thing you should be using for analytics is Google Analytics or an equivalent (and expensive) piece of software). Unless, of course, you’re the only one who actually sees the latter and are not ashamed to tell your customer that his recently search optimized site now has 10k uniques per month — in spite of the fact that GA tells you that your actual traffic is around 100 real visitors per month. (Seen in real life, don’t laugh.)

Re your secondary question, for bandwidth just use the host’s default analyzer (usually webanalyzer or equivalent, which for this purpose is arguably good since it includes spam bots).

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