Windows IIS Server Unique Hits from Logs
December 27th, 2006 by Anthony Curreri
“I need the number of hits to our website from date x to date y.”
Two problems. I’ve never used IIS, and I’ve used remote tools like Google Analytics to find hits in the past.
Since Google Analytics is not set up on this site, I need to analyize the webserver logs to find the hits.
Where are the logs?
IIS web server logs on my system are stored in:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1
What do I use to analyize the logs?
Barry Welford suggested:
I use Funnel Web Analyzer to analyze such files (either text or zipped log files) and this is a free download from:
Qwest’s Funnel Web Analyzer.
I found Funnel Web a little confusing, but I clicked like three buttons and it spit out reports. You’ll probably want to install Funnel Web on your desktop, and copy the webserver logs there to be analyized.
I went to the month report and tallied up the unique visitor collumn because this is more accurate than ‘hits’. A visitor viewing several webpages will generate several hits. Even so this number is a little inflated. Using log analysis means that I’m also counting ‘bot hits’, automated programs that surf the web. Google Analytics claims to ignore bot hits.
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You might want to check out http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ . It’s pretty nice, and it has graphs!
Haven’t seen you in a while. Too bad you’re not going to be here for New Year’s. When are you going to be in WI?