General Informations

BetterAWStats is made to provide better statistics out of the data AWStats provides. It is not a replacement of AWStats. It is using all data and language resources from AWStats, so the same translations and general features are always available also in BetterAWStats, additional features are being developed, but limited by the data provided through AWStats.

Limitations

BetterAWStats currently cannot not process XML file formats as well as any FTP, NNTP, Mail or Streaming server data. This will be implemented in a coming version

Technology

BetterAWStats is written in PHP and published under the GPL. It reads the required data on every call of a page from the AWStats data files, sorts the information and displays it in different ways through the use of modules. It provides a detailed configuration editor and allows the user to change the way data is displayed and processed, as well as adding custom reports. If you want to know more about the code development from a statistics point of view, please visit the Ohloh.net or the freshmeat.net pages.

Display Types

BetterAWStats provides several modules that display data in as text or as graphics. While BetterAWStats offers the data table and charts that AWStats also offers, BetterAWStats allows the user to use Graphical Maps and other charts at will. Currently, a GD2-based World-Map is implemented, and JPGraph is enabled for future use.

Data Processing

BetterAWStats allows the processing of data that is stored in the data files with PHP before displaying it. This allows the sorting, display of percentages, formatting and filtering of data for any column.

Integration

BetterAWStats is able to be integrated into other projects. Currently, there is a Drupal module included. Please go to the Drupal Page for details.