What it shows
Click View next to a domain. The report is one long page with these blocks:- General Summary: total successful requests, distinct files, distinct hosts served, average requests per day.
- Monthly Report: bar chart of hits per month for the last 12 months.
- Daily Summary: busiest day of the week.
- Hourly Summary: busiest hour of the day.
- Domain Report: top requesting domains (the visitors’ DNS names, not your hosted domains).
- Organization Report: top requesting organizations, deduced from IP allocation.
- File Type Report: top file extensions served (
.html,.png,.css, etc.). - Status Code Report: count of 200, 301, 404, 500, etc.
When you’d use it instead of AWStats
Honestly, rarely. The cases:- You want a quick text-mode glance. Analog’s whole report is one page; AWStats spans many.
- You’re scripting against the output. Analog’s HTML is simpler to scrape than AWStats’s nested tables.
- You’re on a tiny VM and AWStats is too heavy. Analog uses a fraction of the CPU on each run.
How fresh is the data
Like the other analyzers, Analog runs once per day. Today’s traffic appears tomorrow.Common issues
The report is blank or shows zero hits
The report is blank or shows zero hits
Either no traffic has been logged since the analyzer last ran, or the domain has been disabled in Metrics Editor. Disabling Analog while leaving AWStats on is fine and saves a small amount of CPU.
The output looks decades old
The output looks decades old
It does. Analog hasn’t had a release since 2004. The styling is from a different era. The numbers are still accurate, just the presentation is sparse. Use AWStats for anything pretty.
I want to disable Analog Stats entirely
I want to disable Analog Stats entirely
Open Metrics Editor, untick Analog Stats for every domain, save. The button stays in the cPanel home page but the per-domain reports stop generating.