My stats have certainly been reporting properly the last few days and I just noticed this morning the faster updating. Which makes a huge difference. You guys are working your butts off and although I know I am one of those 'squeaky wheels' who speaks my mind, it is not unnoticed. Thanks a lot for the improvements. The page loading is for sure much faster; I've been loving this as well. As a matter of fact, on my old site, one problem I consistently had was that the start page would never seem to finish loading, even though everything appeared on the page. Now that problem has gone away and it loads quickly.

I think it is great you're giving away stats to educational sites.

The only thing I wish for on the stats, is a feature that gives you the page that search queries led to. This is something that has always been useful to me from Statcounter, but which the AW stats doesn't provide. So many of my pages can have overlapping information, I can't always be sure to exactly what page a search might have led. I take it this is not possible to achieve with the AW stats?

BTW, could you guys answer the question that myself and James had about the new IP's? We wanted to know if there was any advantage, when having more than one domain, to use one of each IP. As he put it, is one more "main" than the other, or does one resolve to the other? (hope I got that right)…

Eric, it is fine. Actually I looked into AWStats and how to extend it to report the destination pages you mention, but found nothing. From time to time we look into AWStats alternatives but we cannot find anything that impresses us.

After we deal with a few technical issues we would like to improve a few things at Wkidot (or implement new features) that would benefit our users immediately. I wish we could move things forward a bit faster though…

But wait. Here is the thing: do you think that it would be useful to be able to download logs for your sites? Then you could either run the through other log analyzers or just find the information you need yourself! Looks like an easy thing to implement. What do you think?

Hi Michal,

I was wondering if you have an idea of what format these log files may be in. For example, would it look something like this?

127.0.0.1 - frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326 "http://www.example.com/start.html" "Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)"

A sample log file would be nice, if you have one available. That way, we have data to work with, and could have something ready to go the same day that you implement the feature (if your talks this week end up deciding that it is a good idea).

I had one more question about the statistics. Is there something I need to do to set up my local time, so that the statistics are in line with my time? As it is, my statistics are rolling over to the next day at a very early time for me, around 6pm my local time, which would seem to correspond to your time at wikidot. Any way around this?

Eric, unfortunately there is no way around it. The time in stats is UTC (GMT), which is our "server time". With AWStats I can see no easy and reliable way of altering time zone on the statistics.