AWStats doesn't recognize any search engine

Question

AWStats seems to recognize Google as an external page rather than a search engine.

As a result, it does not report top search keyphrases and keywords.

Output on the web page:

...
Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list

Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - Full list

• http://www.google.com/url 1,427 1,427
• http://www.google.com/imgres 960 1,025
• http://www.google.com/search 332 367

...
Where should I look to find a solution?

Comments

[naoyan]

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Answer 1

Hi, onitail!

If only robots, search engines or keywords/keyphrases are empty, this simply means your web site was not yet visited by any robots and noone found your site using a search engines (this happens particularly for Intranet which are not referenced on search engines). If all of them are empty or with only unknown values, even after several updates, this probably means that your logfile does not contains all informations, this happens with Apache when using the standard "common" log format instead of the standard "combined" log format.

I don’t know about it for sure, but, you may also use LogFormat=4 into your AWStats config files instead of 1. Read AWStats setup documentation to known how to setup your Apache Web server to report logs in a "combined" log format then set LogFormat=1 (link) into your AWStats config file.

Please read “AWStats Documentation - FAQs (link)” or “AWStats discussion forum (link)” for details, otherwise ask AWStats official support (link) if you need their any help.

More power to your elbow. Good luck!