Webalizer Stats The Webalizer is a fast, web server log file analysis program producing highly detailed usage reports in HTML format for viewing with a standard web browser. This is probably the most popular stats engine available today. Two options are available, logs can be viewed from your Web Site or if you have one, your Ftp Site. Terms Used Pages Any HTML document or anything generating an HTML document would be considered a page excluding items such as graphics, audio clips, etc. The default extensions are '.html', '.htm' or '.cgi' although many sites probably define extensions such as '.php3', '.phtml' and '.pl' as pages also. Files Files represent the total number of hits (requests) resulting in something being sent back to the user. Not all hits will result in data being sent, such as '404: File not Found' error pages or requests for pages already in the browsers cache. Hits Hits represent requests made to the server during a given time period. Each valid line in the server log is counted as a hit. Visits Visits occur when a remote site requests a page on your server for the first time or within a given 'timeout' value (default is 30 minutes). The same remote site making several requests within a given timeout period are considered to be part of the same Visit. A new Visit is only counted when a subsequent request greater than the specified timeout period is made. Sites Sites are requests made to the server from unique hostnames/IP addresses during a given time period. Users can appear to come from a single site or from many ip addresses so numbers cannot be read as unique users. As this would be impossible to determine from logs and the HTTP protocol alone, use as a rough guide only. KBytes The KBytes (kilobytes) value shows the amount of data transferred between the server and remote machine during a given time period based on data from the server log file. A KByte (KB) is 1024 bytes (1 Kilobyte). Entry and Exit Pages Entry and Exit Pages give a rough estimate of the URLs used to enter your site and the last pages viewed. Although a good overall indicator as to where users enter and exit your site, limitations in the HTTP protocol and logs alone mean that numbers should be seen as a rough guide only. The Statistics - Usage Summary - Summary by Month - Daily Statistics - Hourly Statistics - URLs - Entry Pages - Exit Pages - Sites - Referers - Search Strings - User Agents - Countries