How to use AWSTATS
How to use AWSTATS
Are you unsure about what web stats mean? Unsure about hits and bandwidth? Don't worry in this video tutorial everything will be explained.
An in-depth tutorial about how AWSTATS works and how to get the most from this open source package.
Hi James, nice video to introduce AWSTATS, I like it a lot and use it with Webalizer.
Depending on the data I’m analyzing, I prefer either the graphic display of AWSTATS, or the spreadsheet data of Webalizer.
I use about 150MB of bandwidth daily, which added up to 3.64G last month (2nd month) and growing.
So no need to say that I concur with you on the need to have a good hosting package capable of handling your bandwidth needs.
Once again you have done a great video. This will surely come in handy for newbies.
Hi James,
You indeed have become a very good Video editor or at least I did not knew it before.
Awstats it is the one I prefer to rely on for my Blog stats. Sometimes Google it does seems giving me strange stats and way too different from my Awstats that is from my hosting.
Why did you rely on more? Google or Awstats
Btw, I just contacted Salwa for a qutation to fix my blog, I did not knew she can be hired to fix themes and hopefully my blog, just hope she will not be too hard on price, lol.
Luis
Hi Nicholas,
I am pleased that you enjoyed the video. I’ve been asked to create this video from a blogger.
It is a good resource. I hope this video will bring in some decent traffic. I’ve started to submit it to relevant web design tutorial sites.
Hi Kushmoney,
Thank you for your input. I tell a lot of clients about web stats. I thought it would be ideal to create a video to save time.
Hi Luis,
I am a professional multimedia designer, so video editing and e-learning is one of my many areas of expertise.
I use Google Analytics as a good reference, you will get different stats, because Google Analytics, doesn’t include your own visits to the site.
Salwa is a very good friend of mine and very good at her craft. I am sure she will be fair.
Publishing the content your readers request is the best way to increase readership!
Hi Nicolas,
That is very true. I strongly feel that the video is the best way to go. I am enjoying it. The readers seem to be enjoying it. Slowly but surely I will get there. I am pleased with the progress made this month.
Many Thanks
Hi James, nice video. Just a little correction to your comment to Luis. Google Analytics will show your own visits unless you actively block your IP.
Personally I prefer GA as I find it to be more accurate than AWstats which I find to greatly inflate the number of actual visits.
However if you’re trying to sell something that is meant to generate traffic to your customers sites then AWstats is the way to go because of the much higher numbers it’ll give you.
I actually find it funny to see how many marketers selling traffic are using AWstats and not Analytics :)
Hi James,
That make total sense. I just started my coaching services. I have written a few posts to help explain things faster to maximum results from each coaching session.
Hi Mikael,
I am please you like the video. I would be grateful, if you anyone could share this video.
I prefer Google Analytics, it is a very good free product.
Thanks for correcting me, yes you are correct you can block your I.P. address. It is a good idea to do so. i’ve done it on all my machine to give unbaised results.
AWSTATS is more impressive for advertising.
All the best,
Hi Kushmoney,
I am pleased this has helped.
Hi James,
Well you indeed are Professional in video editing.
I still do not understand the extreme difference from Awstats and Google.
Few month back I got about 13000 visits in a month according to Awstats but Google says it was only 3000. But if the other 10000 visits where made from me it seems unrealistic, I cannot visit my site 333 times per day every day for a month. Or maybe Awstats is reading something else too, I dont know.
Luis
@Luis, I believe that AWstats counts visits from search engine bots as visits and they can easily have visited your site several hundred times a day as there are lots of different bots.
Hi Mikael,
So the only reliable stats are the ones from Google? Are not anyone else that could be reliable?
Luis
@Luis, I can’t confirm that Analytics is reliable either. There are a lot of opinions floating online about what is reliable and what isn’t but it all comes down to what you believe should be part of the stats.
Should your stats show a visitors that sees your site for 2 sec and then hits the back button or should it only show visitors that visit for at least 10 sec and sees 2 pages or more? There are opinions on both and neither is right or wrong.
Personally I’ll go with GA because is shows the lowest count and then at least I know I’, not counting in too much :)
Thank you both Luis and Mikael for your comments,
Excellent feedback.
Hi Mikael,
I personally do not like too much Google. About those 2 secs, what if you have some guys coming to your site from search engines and do not like your site but click away in your PPC´s then I really welcome those guys, even more I invite them to come ad just click away from my site using my PPC´s, lol.
So I think they have to be taken into consideration, maybe they are not becoming loyal readers but they can still make you some money.
I also check StatPress plugin that seems not taking my visits into consideration so I assume it must be fine.
Luis
Luis, I’m not sure that I understand what you’re trying to say? Please not that I’m not stating anything about how Google Analytics work but merely what things could affect the results.
I know Mikael, is just I do not rely on Google too much and I am always looking alternatives to see the difference.
Google may work in strange ways and are always changing without warning and that make me very difficult to trust them too much.
I still in the search for more Stats tools to see more accurate stats from my site.
Luis
Hi Luis,
I can understand we you don’t really trust Google. Google doesn’t seem to place all the reference of hyperlinks on the Google Pagerank neither.
Hi James,
Yes I know, its like Alexa it is reporting only 58 or 60 links to my site but I have 12,000 so they do as they like and does not mean better. The same happens with Google they are reporting about 650 or so links to my site, but I know I have a lot more from related sites, so why are not taken into consideration. That´s why I do not trust Google.
The statement “We do it to improve the search relevancy” its just bull@%$#, excuse my french, lol.
But I have seen manual personal slaps and they are not improving any relevancy, like they did to John Chow, how more relevant could be than JohnChow.com for keywords John Chow, that can only be a manual slap, I know they want it to ban him because of his link building campaign but they did not improve their search at all banning him from his own name.
You can find him in the first page only because he is in other sites like Twitter but you cannot find his own site on first page and I know he have a lot more traffic than NotJohnChow.com but he is in the first page.
All this make me realize G just do all this changes to improve their income and nothing else.
Luis
Hi Luis,
I know it is frustrating but yeah I agree with you. Authority does suck.
Excellent Video. Thanks
You’re welcome,
wow… very nice. thanks for the list.
Hi Andy,
I am please you find this useful. Awstats is good.