W3Perl
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| Original author(s) | Laurent Domisse |
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| Stable release | 3.20
/ June 30, 2015 |
GNU General Public License | |
| Website | www |
W3Perl is a
Features
Essential features like hosts, pages, scripts, countries, filetype, traffic, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly,
Administration
W3Perl has an administration interface which allows building configuration files from a web interface. One can also manage configuration files, package updates, run scripts, and see stats output.
Cross-platform availability
Written in Perl, W3Perl can be installed on any operating system that supports Perl. As such, it can be installed on Unix, Windows or Mac OS X. An installer is available for Windows and Mac OS X.
Licensing
W3Perl is licensed under the GNU GPL.[3][4]
Security considerations
Running the scripts from the administration interface should be restricted with login/password. Blocking referrer spam have been added but as it is based on a blacklist, the file must be updated regularly. Real-time stats can only run once to prevent overloading the server.
Alternatives
There are other free tools:
- Analog is written in C (and therefore very fast) but it lacks some features like session statistics.
- AWStats has a large user base, is very powerful but still lacks some of the features of W3Perl.
- Piwik is a set of scripts in PHP using a Mysql database.
See also
- Data logging
- List of web analytics software
- Server log
- Web analytics
- Web log analysis software
References
- ^ "W3Perl Alternatives". alternativeto.net. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ "W3Perl in 2022 - Reviews, Features, Pricing, Comparison". PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying Guides & Best Practices. 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ "Welche Alternativen gibt es zu Google Analytics?". www.bigdata-insider.de (in German). 19 March 2018.
- ^ "W3perl - Free Software Directory". directory.fsf.org.