Awstats Hacks

2007-01-19

#Random Thoughts

Thought I might share a neat Awstats hack of mine that I use to read my referer data better. This simple hack/addon is nothing more than a bit of regex. It takes your search traffic data and puts it into separate Yahoo, MSN, and Google tables. It also grabs your traffic from Digg.com and puts them into a nice table organized by referring page.

ScreenShot (Click To Enlarge)

Installation

All you got to do is append the code below into your sites’ conf file. Your conf file on a standard Cpanel setup is usually located in the /tmp/awstats/awstats.mydomain.conf folder below your root in the ftp. Place the code at the bottom, save, and reupload. Be sure to make a backup of your previous conf file even though this should be pretty foolproof.

If you got any requests for additions to this hack drop a comment and let me know.

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agloco Jan 19, 2007 at 7:54 PM

thanks. another great post. ill try this later. bookmarked..

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Deadbeat Super Affiliate Bonus Oct 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM

Nice, a real code hack for awstats. I need to revisit what it can actually do and stop using the vanilla implementation.

Eli Jan 20, 2007 at 1:02 AM

Bonus For The People Who Read The Comments - Tracks referals from Google Images. Just add the code below the others in the conf file.

Mike Jan 20, 2007 at 3:43 AM

Cool Eli. Thanks for that!

Jon Jan 20, 2007 at 12:13 PM

Cheers Eli, never paid enough attention to realise you could do this sort of thing with awstats!

Seocracy Jan 20, 2007 at 3:20 PM

This is brilliant. You, sir, are both a scholar and a gentleman!

NSUSA Jan 20, 2007 at 8:06 PM

Does not work for me on a very busy site with about 2500 unique visitors per day. However works on a site with less traffic. Anyway - thanks for sharing. Christoph

Rob Jan 22, 2007 at 11:14 AM

It doesn’t matter if you receive 100 people per day or 300 trillion people a day. This is still useful. This line here MaxNbOfExtra5=10 - That line determines how many results to show.. (like this one is top 10). MaxNbOfExtra5=5 would be top 5. Its not going to show you every single one that came thru..

Sweet Dick Willie Jan 22, 2007 at 6:55 AM

I think your fulla shit cracker. Why don’t you enlighten us to all the ways you make all of this money online rather than slamming other folks?

Gabor Jan 22, 2007 at 8:27 AM

Yeah, it’s just too easy to say things like “I made 56million bucks yesterday, and this site is full of shit.” Who are u Cracker? Someone who doesn’t implement anything from here. You are wasting your time here, and time is money, so you are funny :) It was a good tip Eli, Thanks.

Eli Jan 22, 2007 at 11:25 AM

I deleted joe crackers comment. Incase you were curious he said the usual “This sucks you should spam myspace.” haha kind of like trying to sell cookies to the other girlscouts wouldn’t ya say? He also said he makes $xxx for his 100k visitors/day which means he’s officially got the lowest payouts and conversions in all of myspace spam history. Getting boring so he’s banned from commenting.

Rob Jan 22, 2007 at 11:38 AM

sounds good

Seocracy Jan 22, 2007 at 11:44 AM

my AWSTATS conf file keeps reverting back to its original state a day after I add the code. Anyone know why?

Rob Jan 22, 2007 at 11:47 AM

Are you on a cpanel setup? Cpanel runs a cron that rebuilds all those config files daily.