It’s a mix, I put two screenshots together. On the left is my monthly bandwidth usage from CPanel on the right is Awstats (though I hid some sections so the Robots/Spiders section was closer to the top).
I mean, I thought it was long dead. It’s twenty-five years old, and the web has changed quite a bit in that time. No one uses Perl anymore, for starters. I used Open Web Analytics, Webalizer, or somesuch by 2008 or so. I remember Webalizer being snappy as heck.
I tinkered with log analysis myself back then, peeping into the source of AWStats and others. Learned that a humongous regexp with like two hundred alternative matches for the user-agent string was way faster than trying to match them individually — which of course makes sense seeing as regexps work as state-machines in sort of a bytecode close to machine code. My first attempts, in comparison, were laughably naive and slow. Ah, what a time.
benagain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s a mix, I put two screenshots together. On the left is my monthly bandwidth usage from CPanel on the right is Awstats (though I hid some sections so the Robots/Spiders section was closer to the top).
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought I recognized it. Hell of a blast from the past, haven’t seen it in fifteen years at least.
benagain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think they’re winding down the project unfortunately, so I might have to get with the times…
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, I thought it was long dead. It’s twenty-five years old, and the web has changed quite a bit in that time. No one uses Perl anymore, for starters. I used Open Web Analytics, Webalizer, or somesuch by 2008 or so. I remember Webalizer being snappy as heck.
I tinkered with log analysis myself back then, peeping into the source of AWStats and others. Learned that a humongous regexp with like two hundred alternative matches for the user-agent string was way faster than trying to match them individually — which of course makes sense seeing as regexps work as state-machines in sort of a bytecode close to machine code. My first attempts, in comparison, were laughably naive and slow. Ah, what a time.