# AWStats

Log file analyzer that generates web server statistics from a site's access logs, run as a CGI script or from the command line.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/awstats/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.awstats.org/
- repository: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats
- docs: https://www.awstats.org/
- x: https://www.twitter.com/awstats_project
- forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/awstats/discussion/43428/
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awstats.org

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Laurent Destailleur
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2000
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: analytics
- hosting: perl
- language: perl
- runtime: perl
- runtimeMin: perl 5.00503
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: yes, several interface languages

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: per-request, scheduled
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: tarball download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-3.0-or-later

### Releases

- currentMajor: 8
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-08-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 439
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 54
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- status: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- status: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runtimeMin: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/releases/tag/AWSTATS_8_0 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/releases/tag/AWSTATS_8_0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/eldy/AWStats (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/eldy/AWStats/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-03)
- i18n: https://www.awstats.org/ (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

AWStats is a log file analyzer that reads a website's web server access logs and produces statistics such as visits, pages and hosts. It is written in Perl and runs either as a CGI program, which a web server starts for each request, or from the command line, where a scheduler can update the statistics. The distribution is a tarball of Perl scripts and modules under the GNU General Public License. The project's first version dates from 2000, and its copyright line names Laurent Destailleur.

## Worth knowing

The project states that it is deprecated and no longer actively developed, and it recommends migrating to Matomo Log Analytics. The server needs a Perl interpreter.

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