Obsessive Website Statistics

The first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer, OWS uses PHP and jQuery to provide a powerful and intuitive interface to manipulate website log data stored in a MySQL database. Has a simple plugin system so you can create custom output as well.

This program is called Obsessive Web Statistics for a reason.

The idea is to give you a ridiculous amount of control over the web analytics that you retrieve about your website, either for amusement, to improve your site, or for obsessing about how many links you received from Digg yesterday between 12:41am and 3:16pm.

Fine-grained multidimensional logfile analysis isn't just possible -- its the whole reason OWS exists!

OWS stores your logfile data in an SQL database, in multiple dimensions for speed and flexibility. This provides you with all the flexibility (and difficulties) that comes with SQL queries and dimensional analysis.

Since much of OWS functionality is implemented in plugins, the plugin interface is designed to be relatively simple to program and integrate common code together where possible to make plugins as simple and powerful as possible. An abstraction layer makes working with the OLAP-style multidimensional tables (relatively) simple for plugin authors.

Additionally, you can be sure that the plugin environment actually works well. The plugin is a first class customer on OWS, they aren't just an afterthought that was thrown in.

Requirements:

· PHP 5.1 or greater
· Shell access to the machine where you will run OWS
· Access to your raw server logs
· MySQL, preferably version 5 or greater.