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My idea was to use server logs too but AWStats showed more than 100% higher number of unique visitors and more than 18 times higher number in page views (both c
by markosaric 6y ago
My idea was to use server logs too but AWStats showed more than 100% higher number of unique visitors and more than 18 times higher number in page views (both compared to Plausible numbers) so I excluded it from the study as I thought it’s very inaccurate.
- JeanMarcS 6y agoAs I understand that unique visitor would be higher (awstats, IIRC, considers that after an hour, a same IP is a new visitor), I don't get how you can have that number for page views. I guess it depends on people gowing back to pages and JS is not executed, but logs are updated ? Strange.
- markosaric 6y agoIt's strange. My best guess is that despite AWStats filtering bots, many do get through. It was easy to see as most viewed pages according to AWStats were back end pages etc. I tried Webalizer with similar results too. I published the stats difference here: https://plausible.io/blog/server-log-analysis https://plausible.io/blog/server-log-analysis