If you are a Webmaster or a Website owner that you must be interested by these questions: How many visitors will come to your site? Whether they will find their own searching things? Whether your visitors will bring benefit for you or only will consume your bandwidth and resources of your server? The Web server log files contains hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands different search phrases used by our visitors. The contents of these log files are usually very huge and unorderly. It is impossible to sort and analyze these log files by hand? How do we collect and analyze these informations easily and quickly? Take it easy! The Web server log analyzer is an ideal solution for just for you! Here are some powerful yet easy to use Web server log analyzing utilities I will show you. They are: Web Log Storming, Expert Data Miner, WebLog Expert, Absolute Log Analyzer and Web Log Explorer. If you are looking for such a program, you must not miss this good chance. Now let's go and pick out an interested Web server log analyzer for you!

Web Log Storming is an interactive web server log analyzer that runs on our desktop and analyzes given log files. It produces interactive statistics with detail reports and graphs and an option to search for items by file name, IP address or other aspects. The information includes referrer data, country locations, most accessed pages/files, operating systems/browsers, search engine phrases used to find our site and much more. Each report is clickable and allows us to drill into detailed information, even track actions by an individual user (IP address). In addition, we can create any kind of custom report and filter results on-the-fly as all reports are kept in memory (RAM). As a result, the program will require large amounts of RAM and CPU and is mostly suitable for small or mid-size log files. If our log files are not too big, we can get fast, detailed and very flexible reporting.

Expert Data Miner is a web server log analyzer that offers high speed processing of our log files and generates detailed reports that can be exported to HTML format. The program offers pre-defined reports to choose from and we can also create our own reports to filter data and create reports that are relevant to our site. We can create monthly or yearly cumulative projects that allow us to append the data to previously parsed log reports without the need to process older log files again (database size is limited to 4gb per project). Expert Data Miner includes all the standard traffic reports for visitors, daily/hourly activity, geographical location etc. as well as detailed reports for entry pages, search engines and other referrers. Supports W3C Extended Log Format.

WebLog Expert is a web server log analyzer, that will provide us with detailed information about our site visitors. The reports include statistics about paths taken through the site, referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, errors, and much more. We can also set various filters, allowing us to analyze specific sections of our site or visits to certain pages or specific referrers. It can lookup the country of our visitors without the need for DNS lookups, using a built-in database. The program generates nice looking HTML-based reports with tables and colored charts that can be viewed in any browser. It supports log files from Apache and IIS servers and can read GZ and ZIP compressed logs. Additional features include built-in scheduler, FTP upload/download, an option to create PDF and CSV reports, and more.

Absolute Log Analyzer is an easy to use web server log analyzer that generates detailed graphical statistics and HTML reports from our log files. All results are stored in a database, so we can add new log file data for long-term tracking without having to re-process previous logs. The program provides very detailed reports that can be browsed from a Windows interface and also exported to HTML format. The statistics include referrers, bandwidth usage, search engines, page views, download statistics and much more. Additional filter options allow us to refine report data by any number of conditions. Absolute Log Analyzer can retrieve log files via FTP connection, getstats.dll or local file and also handles compressed log formats. It supports W3C Extended, Apache/NCSA Combined, Microsoft IIS, Common Access Log Format and Custom formats. The program is easy to use and comes with an attractive interface that allows us to easily navigate the wealth of available information. The statistics displays within the interface, as well as in the exported HTML version are very nicely done and easy to read.

Web Log Explorer is a web server log analyzer, that generates reports for visitors, search engines and numerous access statistics, including visitor paths, referring sites, countries, browsers, keywords and more. For many of the reports, we can switch between a list report or pie graph display, and also apply several filters to include/exclude hosts, domains, pages and more. Additional features include export to HTML or CSV, search in report, sortable columns and more. The program generates the reports on-the-fly, which reduces initial processing time, especially for smaller log files, however Web Log Explorer is rather slow with a larger log file (200mb).

How about these Web server log analyzing utilities I recommend to you above? Which one do you like best? What are you waiting for? Download and give it a try now!