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Release 2.90
2nd January 03
  • Mapping IP to country code with the Geo::IP module
  • Added mailto://, news:// and file:// reference
  • Real time stats
  • Default configuration provided (NT-IIS, NT-Apache, Mandrake, FTP)
  • Status code added
  • Download not completed
  • Discussion mailing list available
  • Support for FTP logfile
  • Docs updated with a powerpoint slide show (french)
  • Hungarian translation
  • NT configuration file available for people running w3perl without a webserver
  • Daily stats older than $nbdays days are removed to avoid to fill your hard disk with time
  • Script schedule added in configuration file
  • Summarize stats in the admin interface
  • Better robot detection (from a list)
  • Virus stats (only Nimda and Red Code)
  • Number of files for each filetype
  • Can build configuration file from an exisiting one
  • Portuguese language added
  • W3Perl available for Apache under NT
  • Scripts stats improved
  • Added a script for easier upgrade
  • Added exit pages in referer stats
  • Better understanding of page stats
  • Added support for RealServer logfiles
  • Added support for logfiles with %hour, %min and %sec fields.
  • Automatic threshold for IP hosts (to avoid huge output)
  • Traffic by file
  • Robots sorted by occurence
  • Traffic by hosts added
  • Hosts sorted for each country in daily stats (precision : 4)


  • Release 2.80
    15th March 01
  • Better interface between init and incremental run
  • Multi year improved
  • Added bookmarked page in referer stats
  • Works with only one compressed logfile
  • Many bug fix and resource update.
  • Accesses added in the daily reports
  • Brazilian language added (first version)
  • Visitors table of data now available with session graph
  • Updated GhostInstaller install (NT)
  • add '-b' flag for hourly stats to compute stats over the whole logfile
  • add '-d' flag for monthly stats to specify numbers of days to scan
  • Error stats updated.
  • Browser and OS stats improved.
  • Installation for virtual hosts or client provider added
  • W3C format being read from logfile comment
  • Logfile format without date support added (date extracted from logfilename)
  • Wrong date support (convert to the last correct date found)
  • Some memory improvments
  • Browser stats more accurate
  • Adding flag pictures
  • Each page can show accesses versus date in a javascript popup
  • Zope website can be parsed now (_html extension)
  • Peak detection for daily and weekly stats
  • PNG support added
  • More stats for daily output
  • German language added
  • NT package improved.
  • CGI need to be run from the admin interface (security)
  • Administration interface improved.
  • Better output for the highest level of precision
  • More filetype added
  • Hourly stats saved in the daily report
  • Filetype and download summary for hourly stats.
  • Daily filetype stats added.


  • Release 2.70
    04th July 00
    Using GhostInstaller on NT
    Upgrade facility via the administration interface
    CGI links according to your cgi path in the administration files.
    Stats about filetype added.
    Session stats can be compute between two dates
    Scripts stats available in hourly and daily reports.
    Scripts flag can now be selected via the administration interface
    Installation manual updated
    Tested with IIS 5, ActivePerl 5.6.0 on Windows 2000
    New install script.
    French documentation updated.
    Geographic stats
    The package is setiware
    Month stats improved.


    Release 2.60
    29th September 99
    Microsoft year format added (2 digits ;)
    Speed increase !
    Ability to scan splited logfiles without compression
    Ability to parse daily compressed logfile with missing logfiles
    Administration interface updated
    Installation updated
    Finnish language added
    Trafic by file size and filetype
    Page stats improved
    Ability to compute stats for one country
    Date of last visit for domain hosts
    Domain stats have been rewritten
    New error and logfile format added
    Several date format included for IIS 3 server
    Monthly stats is multi-year now


    Release 2.50
    12th Mar 1999
    Option to exclude framed pages
    Option to exclude robot hits
    Full daily stats (referer, agent, pages, session, hosts...)
    Average reading time per page
    Precise page stats only computed for few days.
    Session stats only computed for few days.
    Stats about CPU usage
    Web documents stats improved
    Sh scripts to download and compute stats
    Session sorted by day
    Virtual domain stats improved
    USEMAP for graphs
    French documentation available
    Many bugs fixed and small improvments.


    Release 2.40
    27th Jun 1998
    Graphs for your selected pages
    NT installation script updated
    All stats can be computed via a link in a HTML page
    Installation updated : the provider, user and webmaster procedure
    Stats about your web size by directories (cron-url)
    Administration interface improved.
    Pages statistics have been improved.
    No more absolute links in w3perl.
    External links can be checked now (option)
    Scripts can be launch via an HTML page
    Adding virtual hosts filtering ability
    Support for zip compressed logfiles
    Daily compressed logfiles
    User defined logfile string format


    Release 2.30
    26th Mar 1998
    Stats for virtual servers (NECLF)
    First beta release of the administration section
    www.w3perl.com under construction ;)
    HTML check have been improved (forms and imagemap)
    Can compute stats on several years (max is 10)
    Number of sites by countries is now displayed.
    Error stats available on NT if you use redirection HTML error files
    URL mapping and tree webserver working on NT
    Updated homepage look
    New update of agent and refer stats
    Support for IIS 4.0 logfiles format and IIS 3.0 patched logfile.
    Frames display option : top-bottom or left-right
    Support for Lotus server added (Domino).
    Country code translation
    More accurate view of local stats in country part
    Stats directories with multiple and single level path depth.


    Release 2.20
    18th Dec 1997
    Fully tested on a NT 4.0 server thanks to Alexandre Gefen.
    Added new error format with Apache 1.3b
    Work with IIS logfile (NT server) and the new extended common logfile
    Scripts stats (POST and GET method)
    Login stats for protected area
    Local stats only option
    Session and Documents output configuration
    Scanning only nbdays previous day (-d) in cron-pages and cron-session
    Command lines have changed
    Proxy counts
    History file to check w3perl script speed
    New options available in cron-w3perl (u : reset, a : initialise)
    Lots of bugs fix (gzip and reverse dns mode)


    Release 2.10
    12th Sep 1997
    Japanese and italian output added
    Parsing code rewritten in cron-url. Much better and faster
    Error, agent and referer stats now working with crunched logfile
    Only one generic script to launch via the crontab (cron-w3perl.pl)
    Reverse DNS option available
    A mailing list is available
    Better date management and many bug fix in session stats
    W3Perl is running fine on a Mac server :)
    Stats with starting and ending date is now available via command line
    Map links are now checked via cron-url
    Checking index.html links for local or CD-ROM web
    Session and Document nicer homepage
    Search engines keywords referer


    Release 2.00
    26th Jun 1997
    Spanish and Dutch output added
    Incremental refer, agent and error stats
    Error stats sorted by date
    Incremental stats works now with $precision = 4
    Domain stats added
    Checking WIDTH, HEIGHT and ALT tag (registered users only)
    Useless pages (pages with no links from) (registered users only)
    HTML weight include now image links files
    Nicer homepage with icons
    Explorer browser was hide in Netscape count : fixed.
    Should work on every computer (Mac, PC, NT, Unix...)
    Multi-logfile support added. Install the package only once
    Multi-language support added


    Release 1.90
    21th Jan 1997
    Adding cgi-bin links check
    Lot of minor bugs fixed
    Bad links and bad files detection have been improved in many way !
    Session by day graph added
    Automatic incremental run for monthly stats
    Agent and error netscape server logfiles support added
    Don't need anymore the redirection 2>&1 in the crontab
    Scripts name have changed to english :)


    Release 1.80
    28th Oct 1996
    Robot session report (registered user only).
    3D graphs and lines filled graphs options.
    Wrong links checking (registered user only).
    Tree structure of your web (registered user only).
    Incremental option for monthly stats.
    New script checkconf.pl to ... check your config.pl !.
    Better daily graph subdirectories.
    Graphs for error and browser time evolution (extended NCSA logfile only).
    W3Perl is now Shareware.
    Some bugs fixed.
    Updated documentation.


    Release 1.70
    2nd Aug 1996
    Speed increase for hourly and incremental stats.
    Excluding private directory option.
    Extended common logfile support added (NCSA httpd > 1.4)
    Countries trafic pie chart.
    Directories stats and HTML stats improved.
    Better x-axis legend on graphs.
    Command line options added.
    Error log and user session stats added.


    Release 1.60
    10th May 1996
    Easier installation with a new graphic tool by Marten Gleeson.
    Improving incremental version to allow several days to be scanned.
    Better memory management (and speed).
    Optional server stats about HTML pages (size, links, pictures...).


    Release 1.50
    7th Mar 1996
    Adding cron-url.pl to convert URL to document's title.
    Netscape2 frame for navigation.
    HTML accesses are now computed.
    Registration is needed to know who is using my package.


    Release 1.40
    28th Jan 1996

    Adding incremental script cron-inc.pl ==> Huge speed increase !
    Only work with $precision from 1 to 3.




    Release 1.30
    26th Dec 1995

    Cosmetic changes. Speed increase. Adding referer and agent log analyser prgs.




    Release 1.20
    11th Dec 1995

    Adding some graphs and table. More powerful directories stats.




    Release 1.10
    28th Nov 1995

    Some bugs fixed. Better documentation in HTML format and better setup program.



    Release 1.00
    3rd Nov 1995

    Initial release of this program to the Internet community.




    Release 0.00
    7th Feb 1995

    Converting my first stat scripts (csh) in Perl

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