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Traffic logs

In addition to traffic statistics reports, you have access to the raw traffic log files from which the reports are generated.

Web traffic log files

Traffic logs are text files generated by the web server. They record every browser request to your website. In general, all web server software, such as Apache, used on Unix, and IIS, used on Windows Server, use the same standardized log file format.

All web traffic log analyzers, which generate statistics reports for your website, base their output on the information contained in the traffic log files. However, every traffic log analyzer parses and summarizes the data somewhat differently.

If you have a preferred method for analysing the data that the traffic logs contain, or if you wish to use a traffic analysis package on your personal computer to create reports, you can download the traffic log files.

The log files are compressed using the bzip2 format. You will need a file compression utility that can decompress this format, such as WinBZip2.

Steps to download traffic logs

  1. Log in to AMS Control Panel as owner, or as a user with the "Download raw traffic logs" permission turned on.
  2. Click the "Web stats" category tab, then click the "Download traffic logs" link at left.
  3. Select a website to download the logs for, and click "Next".
  4. Select a date from the list for which you'd like to download logs. You can select either a full months' worth of logs, or any day in the preceding ninety days. Click "Download" to retrieve the log.

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