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The first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer, Obsessive Website Statistics (OWS) uses PHP and jQuery to provide a powerful and intuitive interface to manipulate website log data stored in a MySQL database via easy to create plugins.

OWS 0.8.0.5 was released today, with a handful of bugfixes and some plugin improvements. In addition, there are security fixes included also. The most important (and useful) improvement is that you can manually specify WHERE parameters for all plugins, not just the manual analysis plugin. ... read more

The first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer, Obsessive Website Statistics (OWS) uses PHP and jQuery to provide a powerful and intuitive interface to manipulate website log data stored in a MySQL database via easy to create plugins.

OWS 0.8.0.4 was released today, with a handful of bugfixes and some plugin improvements. In addition, OWS now has the capability to mostly reconstruct the original logfile from the data stored in the database.

I just wrote an analysis plugin tutorial, which shows how you can add to a dimension and extend it -- in this case, resolving the hostname of the visitor. Hope this helps you in writing your own plugins, check it out at my blog.

http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/01/obsessive-web-statistics-ows-analysis-plugin-tutorial/

Dustin

If you do not have any iRejectPlugin plugins installed, then 0.8.0.2 will reject all lines. This has been fixed in 0.8.0.3. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer, Obsessive Website Statistics (OWS) uses PHP and jQuery to provide a powerful and intuitive interface to manipulate website log data stored in a MySQL database via easy to create plugins.

This is a minor release of OWS. It is mostly a bugfix release, with the exception of the addition of the 'reject' plugin type, which can be used to determine whether or not a logfile line is added to the database. This is used to (optionally) purge the database of old data, past a specified limit.

The first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer, Obsessive Website Statistics (OWS) uses PHP and jQuery to provide a powerful and intuitive interface to manipulate website log data stored in a MySQL database via easy to create plugins.

This is a major release of OWS. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. v0.7.x is completely not compatible with v0.8, as the database structure has totally changed for performance and flexibility reasons. You will need to totally delete your old databases and upload logfiles from scratch. This is not expected to happen again in the future.... read more

Obsessive Web Statistics (OWS) is a website statistics system that gives you a ridiculous amount of control over the info that you can retrieve about your website, so you can obsess about the minute details of your website traffic. OWS does this by storing apache logfile data in a MySQL database, and providing a dynamic jQuery-driven interface to manipulate the data into usable, detailed reports.... read more