Hi,

When I use webalizier/analog to analyse the stats for this site (webhostingtalk.com) they are very inconsistent.

When I use Analog:
Program started on Wed, May 16 2001 at 6:49 PM.
Analyzed requests from Thu, May 10 2001 at 2:05 PM to Wed, May 16 2001 at 6:49 PM (6.20 days).
Successful requests: 4,739,693
Average successful requests per day: 764,809
Successful requests for pages: 40,743
Average successful requests for pages per day: 6,574
Failed requests: 4,901
Redirected requests: 8,505
Distinct files requested: 88,276
Distinct hosts served: 6,104
Corrupt logfile lines: 1
Data transferred: 20.287 Gbytes
Average data transferred per day: 3.273 Gbytes

When I use webalizer:
Daily totals:
Files: 127724
Pages: 2561
Visits: 1466

Monthly totals:
Sites: 6192
Visits: 10652
Pages: 17929
Files: 894423

Actual Traffic:
Using webtrenslive.com (with javascript on) it reports approximately 20k+ page views per day, this will include cache page loads (such as hitting back button). The actual page views (no javascript) is 14k - this represents true page views.

Why are webalizer and analog so far off. Each cpanel/whm server I try webhostingtalk.com on (about 3/4) it always produces similar incorrect stats, which leads me to believe it another problem with cpanel setup (like the many other problems).

How is that a cpanel fault? Wouldn't that just be a difference with respect to how each program calculates stats?

The way cpanel setup up the system, cpanel installs analog/webalizier/apache/etc... and I have no doubt in my mind that the configurations are wrong.

>Wouldn't that just be a difference with respect to how each program calculates stats?

Completely incorrectly,useless and different from each other???

hmmm..... I'm checking through the FAQ's for both programs right now. That is very weird.

According to Daniel at VO, you have to disable the webalizer/analog stuff to get real custom logging. (Im summarizing here, not quoting). My -guess- is that cpanel sets up its own logging. All I know is I tried setting up a cron job to copy the logs out of my directory so I had them daily, and every time the server reboots, the file is reset. So, who knows.

I had em disable cpanels logging for me and start dumping raw logs into a directory inside my web space. I prefer to do my own analysis anyway. :)