Patch provided by Alaric Snell-Pym in pkgsrc-users@.
-> Visitors 0.7 Released (30 March 2006)
30Mar2005 - Added screen resolution and color depth report (via Javascript) see the README file for more info.
12Dic2005 - Added --debug option for verbose errors.
17Nov2004 - Debian Bug#339594: default output is html, but the manpage says text. Fixed. Thanks to Rick Pasotto for reporting the bug.
15Nov2005 - --grep and --exclude options implemented.
13Nov2005 - --ignore-404 option, useful to ignore log lines about missing pages. When this option is turned on log lines with 404 errors are just used to genera te the 404 errors report and not used for other reports.
-> Visitors 0.61 Released (25 October 2005)
24Oct2005 - Versioning scheme changed, after 0.6 now there is 0.61 instead of 0.6a like it was in the past. 0.6a may look like an alpha release.
24Oct2005 - Ignore more bots other than bots from google when computing unique visitors stats. This makes unique visitors stats much more reliable, there are crawlers with 200 and more different IP addresses so the unique visitors algorithm does not help there.
-> Visitors 0.6 Released (10 October 2005)
10Oct2005 - New report: Adsensed-pages. Like googled-pages but for the adsense crawler, that's supposted to be the one with Mediapartners-Google user agent.
10Oct2005 - Fixed a bug resulting in wrong googled-pages report.
04Oct2005 - Some formatting problem and a bug introduced in the 0.6 beta version fixed thanks to Simon Waters <sysadmin at zynet dot net>
03Oct2005 - Visitors's site finally contains a Japanese translation thanks to Takeshi ABE (tabe (at) fixedpoint (dot) jp).
02Oct2005 - Fixed the parsing code to detect the user agent string when no occurence of (...) string is present. This results in more accurate stats.
02Oct2005 - New feature: Referer spam filtering via blacklist.h
02Oct2005 - New report: google's "hl" human language.
17Sep2005 - Browsers list updated, Internet Explorer splitted into IE4, IE5 and IE6, detection of Firefox as a special case of Gecko based.
16Sep2005 - Fixed Debian Bug #312345, adding newline for every 'td' table
element generated to create 2D maps. This makes simpler to send reports by
email. Thanks to Simon Waters <sysadmin at zynet dot net>
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Fix required for googlebot changes, New reports including a new
bidimentional map that shows traffic level in the whole year, unique
visitors for every month, better generation of graphviz graphs
including percentages in arcs, nodes for google, external links,
and no referere, 50% less memory used, Highlight color for weekend
changed to be more visible, most stats are now made by unique visits
and not by number of accesses, many bugs fixed, a real manual page.
Visitors is a very fast web log analyzer for Linux, Windows, and
other Unix-like operating systems. It takes as input a web server
log file, and outputs statistics in form of different reports.
The design principles are very different compared to other software
of the same type:
* No installation required, can process up to 150,000 lines of
log entries per second in fast computers (20MB/s with my log
files average length).
* Designed to be executed by the command line, output html and
text reports. The text report can be used in pipe to less to
check web stats from ssh.
* Support for real time statistics with the Visitors Stream Mode
introduced with version 0.3.
* To specify the log format is not needed at all. Works out of
box with apache and most other web servers with a standard log
format (see the documentation for more information on the format).
* It's a portable C program, can be compiled on many different
systems.
* The produced html report doesn't contain images or external
CSS, is self-contained, you can send it by email to users.
* Visitors is free software (and of course, freeware), under
the terms of the GPL license. You don't need to pay to use it.
