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- It is now mostly unusable for web analytics. So many scrapers are pretending to be browsers. On my site, there is a factor 10 with what I consider an honest view of human visitors.by vbernat
- Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.
- This always looks cool and the real-time aspect always gets attention. However, If I remember correctly, it was kind of a burden to get deployed.
Again, if I remember correctly, it was able to make reports for AWS Cloudfront logs, which was actually useful.
by iJohnDoe - I've revived AWFFull for static log analysis, just like in the good old webalizer days :-). Link to the report is in my bio, sorry, I can't post links here for now.
What I'm seeing matches the observations of the other commenters here exactly: most of the "users" are bots harvesting pages and PDFs. My solution for getting at the real users is GoatCounter.
by aleks_me2 - GoAccess is an awesome tool! If I recall correctly, it was developed as an alternative (Go port) of a popular log analyzer called lnav (https://lnav.org), which is quite popular too: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lnav.orgby guessmyname