So you’d like to see a graph and some sweet statistics of your website’s traffic? Your host is Dreamhost?

Visitors and GraphViz

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.

GraphViz is used to show those graphs generated by the visitors step.

Demo

• The visitors statistics
• The graphviz trails graph

How to Install

Here’s how you install visitors and graphviz on a dreamhost account. Quick and easy how to install fast website logging and graphing into a Dreamhost account

1. First, grab the precompiled version of visitors
2. Next copy this makefile source to a directory of your choosing (on your Dreamhost account)
3. You’ll need to edit the HOST and TARGET lines at least, and probably the EXCLUDE line as well.

   HOST=fastwiki.com
   TARGET=~/image-tags.com/files
   
   EXCLUDE=--exclude 72.134.42.251
   --exclude 75.80.163.250
   --exclude /admin/
   
   OPTIONS=-TGKZHUWMRDYS
   --screen-info
   -m 400
   --operating-systems
   --browsers
   --error404
   --filter-spam
   
   PREFIX=--prefix http://$(HOST)
   
   LOGS=~/logs/$(HOST)/http
   
   NULL=>& /dev/null
   
   TMPLOG=access.tmp.log
   DOTFILE=graph.dot
   OUTFILE=visitors.html
   OUTGRAPH=visitors.png
   
   all: $(TARGET)/$(OUTFILE) $(TARGET)/$(OUTFILE) $(OUTFILE) $(OUTGRAPH)
   cp $(OUTFILE) $(OUTGRAPH) $(TARGET)
   
   $(OUTFILE): $(TMPLOG)
   ~/bin/visitors $(TMPLOG) $(OPTIONS) $(EXCLUDE) $(PREFIX)
   > $(OUTFILE)
   
   $(DOTFILE): $(TMPLOG)
   ~/bin/visitors $(TMPLOG) $(OPTIONS) $(PREFIX) $(EXCLUDE)
   --graphviz > $(DOTFILE)
   
   $(OUTGRAPH): $(DOTFILE)
   ~/bin/dot $(DOTFILE) -Tpng > $(OUTGRAPH)
   
   $(TMPLOG): $(LOGS)/access.log
   zcat $(LOGS)/access.log.*.gz > $(TMPLOG)
   cat $(LOGS)/access.log >> $(TMPLOG)
   
   clean:
   -rm $(DOTFILE) $(TMPLOG) $(OUTGRAPH) $(OUTFILE) *~ *#

   • Host is the website hostname you’re interested in, TARGET is the place where the visitors.html (the stats) file and visitors.png (the graphs) files will be copied.
4. Type make
5. Browse to the TARGET location on your server to view the files.

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