Browser War here at RW

Mr. Analog · June 08, 2005, 09:38:59 AM

Hey Mr. Site-admin, tell us the answer please? According to your logs what is the rundown on browser activity here on the forum?

Melbosa · June 08, 2005, 09:45:59 AM

The board does not record that type of data. I can tell you at my router what browsers are hitting my web farm, but that includes may sites, not just this one.

Here are some stats I can give you from the board logs:

Registration Stats
New Topic Stats
Post Stats
Personal Message
Topic Views

Moderator Logs
Admin Logs
Email Logs
Bot Logs
Warn Logs

Lazybones · June 08, 2005, 10:45:22 AM

Well I tend to use IE at work and FF at home.. I think I post more from IE than FF. That might change now that I don't do development work.

Shayne · June 08, 2005, 11:50:04 AM

so you have apache right? parse the apache log with any number of stats generation tools. http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ is what we provide all of our clients with at no charge. Works like a hot damn.

Melbosa · June 08, 2005, 01:32:04 PM

Can't as I use Apache Proxy, which logs incoming and outgoing but this server hosts more than one website, so I still couldn't get you accurate results.

Shayne · June 08, 2005, 02:28:55 PM

each website can have its own httpd.log

Cova · June 08, 2005, 03:55:54 PM

The web logs on the server hosting RW will still show the proper browser information, only the source-IP of every user is lost going through the proxy.

Melbosa · June 09, 2005, 10:13:21 AM

Aye and this is a Windows box, so if you have any suggestions on software to go through IIS logs that would be great. Only my router is Apache.

Shayne · June 09, 2005, 10:20:32 AM

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ does windows logs as well.

Melbosa · June 09, 2005, 11:15:17 AM

OK and where do I get the Perl Interpriter it says it needs?

Shayne · June 09, 2005, 12:12:33 PM

You know...http://www.weblogexpert.com/ is probably okay for you. I use it (for my personal server), i paid for it. They have a powerful demo of the pro, and a free lite verison. Check it out, upload the HTML results, and give us the link

Melbosa · June 09, 2005, 02:05:46 PM

Well here ya go, although some of the stats aren't going to be very accurate (being that these can be from hits in my network and that everything outside comes from the same IP - my router):

Righteous Wrath Main Site
Righteous Wrath Forums

Thx for the link btw Shayne, easy tool to use and free on the lite version.

Mr. Analog · June 09, 2005, 02:29:00 PM

Hah! 30 hits from Lynx!

I think I might be responsible for 8% of all the firfox hits lol (j/k)

Melbosa · June 09, 2005, 02:38:50 PM

I was actually surprised by the amount of people coming from Mac OS to the site. And who the hell is running Internet Explorer 8.x?

Lazybones · June 09, 2005, 04:20:21 PM

Quote from: "Melbosa"I was actually surprised by the amount of people coming from Mac OS to the site. And who the hell is running Internet Explorer 8.x?

If the stats are based on the client string it could be a an Opera or Mozilla browser using a client spoof option.