This great webalizer.conf file from Tristan and some performance problems I’ve been having with Sawmill has got me back to using Webalizer for web log analysis.
Tristan has spent a lot of time grouping referrers and user agents and that effort will pay off in improved analysis.
Recommended.
2008 UPDATE: I just use Google Analytics now.
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You mention Webalizer, which I once used and found to be a good log analysis. I had the same problem as Tristan had, that being the results are very inacurate, unless you do a LOT of hand coding (even then things still fell through the cracks).
My results using it were very misleading, as it does not by default remove all the non-human traffic (for example, search engines, downloaders, email haversters, etc).
I went looking for a stats program that took all this (and more) into account, and I found AWStats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ). The lastest stable release is version 5.7 (2003-08-23), and I highly recomend it.
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