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ServerStat Lite

Version: 1.0.4
Author: J. Eric Bush
Requirements: MacHTTP, WebSTAR, or gopher log files
Cost: $20 (shareware)
Pros: successfully analyses log files
Cons: does not create tab-delimited output
Remote location: <URL:http://www.ericse.ohio-state.edu/kitchen-sink/ss.html>
Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/server-stat-lite.hqx>

This well documented and supported piece of shareware analyses your server's log files. In fact, it supports three log file formats: gopher, MacHTTP, and WebSTAR. Like its predecessor, WebStat, ServerStat reports statistics on:

Day of the year
Hour of the day
Day of the week
Client domain
Client reversed subdomain
Archive section

Unlike WebStat, ServerStat provides you with many more options for reporting on your statistics. For example, it allows you to set date ranges. You can use "filters" to include or exclude parts of your log when processing. For example, you can use this feature to exclude the server administrator's IP address. To improve performance, you can turn on or off an option called "fastmode". If turned on, ServerStat simply doesn't share your computer's microprocessor with other applications until it is done with it work. To generate these various options, all you have to do is select them from the menu. Once selected, you can then save these configurations for later use.

Similar to WebStat, this program does not export any data in a format suitable for importing into spreadsheet programs or database applications. While the output can either be an HTML file or a simple text file, these files will need some massaging in order to put them into spreadsheets or database programs successfully.

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