Web log analysis software (also called a web log analyzer) is software that parses a log file from a web server (like Apache), and based on the values contained in the log file, derives indicators about who, when and how a web server is visited.
Indicators reported by most of web log analyzers
- Number of visits and number of unique visitors
- Visits duration and last visits
- Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits
- Days of week and rush hours
- Domains/countries of host's visitors
- Hosts list
- Most viewed, entry and exit pages
- Files type
- OS used
- Browsers used
- Robots
- Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find the analyzed web site
- HTTP errors