Peastat 0.2 review

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Peastat - a simple, free, 'live' web stats analyser.

License: Freeware
OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
File size: 12K
Developer: Tom Dyson
Price: $0.00
Updated: 05 May 2006
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Peastat - a simple, free, 'live' web stats analyser.

Peastat works differently to other web stats tools: it looks at the last chunk of your log file to create real-time summaries of recent user activity. What you lose in trend analysis - which you're probably already getting from Analog/Webalizer/AWStats/Urchin - you gain in focus on what your users are doing right now.

Installation
1. Configure the 'logfile' and 'rooturl' values
2. Upload peastat.py somewhere it can be executed on your web server (e.g. your cgi-bin)
3. Make peastat.py executable (set its permissions to 755)

Usage
• Point your browser to http://yoursite/cgi-bin/peastat.py
• Point your Atom-enabled newsreader to http://yoursite/cgi-bin/peastat.py?atom=true
Here are some key features of "Peastat":
Simple - application, instructions and configuration are included in one file. No database required.
Free and open source
Atom 1.0 support - monitor recent activity through your newsreader
Referrer tracking, with search engine query analysis
Simple path analysis
Cached DNS lookups
No need for JavaScript bugs or PHP includes.

What's New:
Stop rewarding referrer spam
Simple AJAX library for future use
Handle user agents whose names include escaped quotes
Recognise Yahoo searches
Handle URLs with ampersands correctly
Time execution of the overview screen
Don't break on fake referrers
Improve error handling on tailing log file
Distinguish links to visited IP details pages with CSS
Rename from peastat.py to pea.py

Requirements:
Python 2.1+ available as CGI
Read access to your log files, in Apache extended/combined format.

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