Analog Web Stats Reporting Changes
Posted (October 31st, 2006 at 2:19 pm PST) by DallasTo reduce overall server resource consumption we will be making a change to how we run our Analog-based website statistics reports. Currently, we generate three reports on a daily basis. The reports are called ‘Daily’ (the previous 24 hours of data), ‘Monthly’ (the current month to date), and ‘Longterm’ (limited reporting of all of the historical data we have). The data in the Daily and Monthly reports is largely redundant so we will stop generating the Daily report altogether. The other two reports (Monthly and Longterm) will still be generated daily. This change will start going into effect next week.
If you would like us to continue generating the Daily web stats report for your domain(s), you can enable that setting from this section of our web control panel…
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=status.stats&
Click the ‘Customize’ link next to the domain to see the options available.
Contact our support team if you have any questions about this.
28 Responses to “Analog Web Stats Reporting Changes”
I use bbclone for stats.
Free and easy to setup. Simple php line on the pages you want to track
I don’t use the Dreamhost stats so they could be disabled for my account. I think if we could set this option a lot of people will disable the stats and dreamhost will reduce the cpu use making stats they aren’t never used.
Can you install other statistic programs such as awstats or webalizer? Analog looks very ugly and not very good at classifying data.
Use AWStats!
why is this on the status blog? this isn’t for burying announcements, it’s for the state of the network.
I have used google’s analytics – it’s free and excellent. http://www.google.com/analytics/
Dreamhost is great…but do you know what would make dreamhost even better..awstats! Your stats programs makes pie charts useless and that’s hard to do. Too bad there is no Awstats..sigh.
I’ve installed awstats for 2-3 websites (there is a guide in the wiki on how to install it) ,
been using google analytics for 2-3 others and I’ve never,ever used analog.
You might as well remove it altogether.
1. It is useless for non-americans , UTF-8 or iso-8859-7 are not supported by default.
(You can configure it but you might as well save your time and spend it installing awstats)
2. It does not resolve IPs and there is no filter for referers
3. My current no1 visitor OS is “OS unknown” followed by windows. WTF ???
4. It lists Googlebot as a browser.
5.The organization report referes to 66.249 as the #1 organization. If anyone finds this
useful I’d like to meet you. Or I can arrange an appointment for you with a shrink….
Give us a button to remove it and save some cpu cycles
god knows the server I am on could use it.
The problem with analog on DreamHost is that all the flexibility of the package is removed in that (as far as I can see) users are not permitted to cumstomise the analog.cfg file. This will solve many of the gripes offered above. The template analog.cfg they are using works ok, but doesn’t cast the program in a very favourable light with regard to its overall capabilities
New webstat reporting techniques eliminates numbers entirely. The new reporting technique will utilize a common dialog messaging system:
* A few people visted your site today.
* You had a nice crowd here.
* Hey! You’re really quite popular!
* Wow! What did you do, post pictures of Cindy Margolis nekked?
* Big turnout, huh? You owe us for extra bandwidth.
If we could choose which to use and which to switch off im sure many would switch of most of it
I use awstats myself and never use analogue
You can install AWStats on DreamHost if you want, it’s what I’m currently using in addition to Analog to generate stats. There’s a DreamHost Wiki page detailing how to set it up.
Yes, AwStats would be great, I’ve used it before and never regret it…
Yes, AwStats would be great, I’ve used it before and never regretted using it…
We have deprecated our old announcement system and now use this site for all announcements. Note the ‘system changes’ category.
The control panel changes made to allow this particular feature change (turning on and off specific analog reports) also provides the framework for toggling Analog reports off altogether (maybe we’ll just do that now since a couple of you have asked for it) and paves the way for the possibility of adding other stats tools in the future. One slow step at a time…
I’ve never looked at my stats. I wonder how much CPU time it has wasted so far!
If you go to the suggestions area of the control panel, there’s a suggestion to replace Analog with AWStats… am I the only one that voted? 
Echoing what M said:
For those of you wanting to voice your support for awstats, I suggest you go to the control panel and go to Home> Suggestions and search for awstats, and use some of your credits to vote for awstats. When I had asked about making awstats the default package (or at least an option) some time back that was what I was told to do.
Vote today!
Of course, if you really want to have complete control over your stats reporting, simply download the raw logs and do your own analysis using whatever tool you want. That way, no matter what package DH happens to install, you’ve got complete control of options, tiime periods, etc.
Hey, all web logs have stalled!
Neither default analog, nor anything custom can be used now…
“I have used google’s analytics – it’s free and excellent. http://www.google.com/analytics/
Zee….How does one READ the logs then? I cant seem to find anything about it on the google site.
A great alternative to analog is GoStats: http://monster.gostats.com
I agree! A new stat system is need. This is the one reason that I have stopped recommending dreamhost to people I know. I mean, I can’t even tell how many mp3′s have been downloaded off of my site, much less more complex yet necessary statistical questions like “how many times was xx.mp3 downloaded during the month of October”.
voted for AWStats here
Definitely need a different web statistics tool as I’m getting different information from Analog, WordPress Statistics, and Google Analytics. I’m not sure which service to trust, but I lean toward what the server logs indicate. With Analog I can’t even see how many visitors there were, only the number of hits.
+1 to change the Analog to Awstats
yes AWSTATS really required in DH panel …it will increase DH ranking n credit too..
I actually look at the Daily report the most. Are there any plans for different stats program being offered? I used AWStats elsewhere, and I really liked it.