Analyze and measure human website traffic using software.
StatEye is an open source software package that is designed to measure and analyze human website traffic. The development of StatEye began in 1998 when the creator was testing a way to measure website traffic with maximum accuracy and installed a prototype on their personal website. Since then, the software has been extensively developed and was even installed on a few web stores the creator worked on, making it more geared to commercial web stores.
The creator found that available commercial alternatives had flaws, particularly regarding the separation of measurement and analysis, and their focus on appearance over content. Additionally, the creator found hosted off-site alternatives unpleasing, as business data and customer information could be accessed and used by competitors. Thus, in 2004, the creator decided to make StatEye available for free under an open source license.
StatEye operates in a two-step approach. First, it measures pageviews and logs the information collected, then runs a nightly script to analyze the log. The information collected includes the IP number of visitors, the pages visited, referrer page, user agent, timestamp, and presence of certain cookies. During the nightly run, StatEye extracts information such as the country of origin of visitors, number of pages and distinct visitors, the pages that were visited first and last, a list of websites that sent the most traffic, search terms used on search engines like Google, browsers and operating systems used, the number of potential sales made on your site, and searches performed through your own website. Results are sent to users every night and every month. There is no graphical user interface, allowing customization and focus on unique details. Reports are easily loaded into a spreadsheet as a tab-delimited file, where users can make custom graphs.
To install StatEye, users need to execute CGI scripts on their website and have FTP and telnet (or sftp and ssh) access. A crontab is required to send daily and monthly reports. StatEye has been developed to run on Linux operating systems using Perl 5.6, the GNU C-compiler (gcc), GNU make (gmake), and Bash. Although it has been successfully installed using other C-compilers, shells, and UNIX operating systems, the creator cannot guarantee current compatibility. Feedback, suggestions, and fixes for enhancing portability are most welcome.
The creator found that available commercial alternatives had flaws, particularly regarding the separation of measurement and analysis, and their focus on appearance over content. Additionally, the creator found hosted off-site alternatives unpleasing, as business data and customer information could be accessed and used by competitors. Thus, in 2004, the creator decided to make StatEye available for free under an open source license.
StatEye operates in a two-step approach. First, it measures pageviews and logs the information collected, then runs a nightly script to analyze the log. The information collected includes the IP number of visitors, the pages visited, referrer page, user agent, timestamp, and presence of certain cookies. During the nightly run, StatEye extracts information such as the country of origin of visitors, number of pages and distinct visitors, the pages that were visited first and last, a list of websites that sent the most traffic, search terms used on search engines like Google, browsers and operating systems used, the number of potential sales made on your site, and searches performed through your own website. Results are sent to users every night and every month. There is no graphical user interface, allowing customization and focus on unique details. Reports are easily loaded into a spreadsheet as a tab-delimited file, where users can make custom graphs.
To install StatEye, users need to execute CGI scripts on their website and have FTP and telnet (or sftp and ssh) access. A crontab is required to send daily and monthly reports. StatEye has been developed to run on Linux operating systems using Perl 5.6, the GNU C-compiler (gcc), GNU make (gmake), and Bash. Although it has been successfully installed using other C-compilers, shells, and UNIX operating systems, the creator cannot guarantee current compatibility. Feedback, suggestions, and fixes for enhancing portability are most welcome.
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