Introduction
When I decided to run programs against my web server, "The Server in the Cellar", logs, there were three programs I particularly remember from the ealy 2000s that I wanted to use, Analog, AWStats, and Webalizer. These three became the most popular, but while looking around for information and the download files for them, I realized there were many more.
Many of the programs were free, if not open-source, and many were written in Perl, which made them cross-platform. There were also paid-for services and programs. In 2005, Google introduced Google Analytics which used JavaScript on the visitor's computers to collect information and now nearly all web analytics software is offered as a service rather than a user installed program or script.
This page lists the free old-school web analytics software and scripts I was able to find.
The List
3DStats
3DsSats was written by Stefan Stapelberg, version 2.1 appeared in 1996 and the Internet Archive shows it was available from NetStore, and Rent-A-Geru. The program analyzes the logfile of a web server and creates a simple three-dimensional VRML model of the server's load by day and by hour. The program can be downloaded from the NetStore site. I do not know if it is related to the commercial 3dStats program that appeared a little later.3DLiveStats
Absolute Log Analyzer
AccessWatch
Access Log Viewer
Active LogView
Analog
Analog was written by Stephen Turner and released as freeware on June 21, 1995, but the license was changed in November 2004 to the GNU General Public License. Stephen wrote Analog while studying for his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Versions existed for Windows, macOS, Linux, and most Unix-like operating systems but in December 2004, after releasing version 6 of the program, Stephen ceased work on it. The original website, www.analog.cx (Internet Archive), was last updated in 2005 and disappeared in August 2014, but there are mirrors of it still around such as the one at reverse.net and the one at web42.com.
In 2007, as a long-term user of Analog C:Amie revived it and produced an updated version of Analog, Analog CE, with the full download, along with the help files, examples and source code on GitHub. This is this version of Analog that I use.
When I checked in October 2023, the download link on the Analog C:Amie site no longer worked and simple gave a database error. The last available version was 6.0.17 created on June 20, 2021. For this reason I have made a zip file of the files from GitHub that includes the last version of analog.exe for Windows. Download (Zip, 2.15Mb). I cannot accept any responsibility for these files. They are not mine and apart from the broken link on the website, I do not know why they are no longer available. All I can say is that this is the version I use and it appears to work.
Analyse Access
AWStats
Advanced Web Statistics or more commonly AWStats was written in Perl by Laurent Destailleur in 2000. In 2025, it is still an active project being developed. The last stable release was version 7.9 released in 2023.
BotWatch
Combined Log System
CheckLog
Dog
Emily
eWLA
eWLA was a Perl log analyzer written by Frederic Tyndiuk in 2000. The download links still work in 2025.
Funnel Analyzer
FWGStat
GetStats
GWStats
HTTP-Analyze
HTTP-Analyze was written by Stefan Stapelberg in 1996 and last updated in 2000. It was a fast log analyzer for web servers. It analyzes logfiles and created a detailed summary of the server's access load in tabular and in graphical form. It was free for personal use and for educational establishments, but commerical entities had to pay a license fee. Originally for Linux, there were Windows ports made of it.Global Service Provider still lists it, and several sites for it are on the Internet Archive such as NetStore, and its own site, but I cannot find a working download of it.
Interse
LogJam
LogScribe
Modlogan
MKStats
MyWebalizer
Net.Genesis
Paul Beard Script
PWebStats
Raytraced Access Stats
Raytraced Access Stats was written by Matt Kruse. The program used the Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POVRay) to produce 3D representations of web logs. The program was a the inspiration for Stefan Stapelberg's 3DsSats.
Sawmill
Statbot
Statbot Pro
Unica Web Analytics
W3Olista
W3Perl
W3Perl was written by Laurent Domisse in 1995 and the last version made was version 3.20 published on June 30, 2015. Like Michael Boyd Clark, I tried several times but could not get W3Perl to work as a standalone program to produce the site statistics. Like Michael, I think that it needs to be run as a CGI program, something I may look into later.
Web-Scope
Webalizer
Webalizer was written by Bradford L. Barrett in 1997. Bradford wrote the program in C to be very fast - it can process 70,000 records per second.
The original Webalizer ceased to be updated from version 2.23-08 of August 26, 2013. The project was forked at version 2.1.10.1 of September 29, 2004 by Stone Steps Inc. and it is their version of Webalizer that I use.
When I checked in October 2023, I could not find the download of the version compiled for Windows on the Stone Steps site, but it is available on GitHub, the latest version being 6.3.0 released on January 29, 2023. I have ben using version 6.2.1 which was released on July 3, 2022 and which I downloaded on November 24, 2022.
Due to the limited availability of the files elsewhere, here are the the latest versions of the Webalizer for Windows zip files. Webalizer 6.2.1 (zip, 2Mb) and Webalizer 6.3.0 (zip, 2Mb).
WebCube Census
WebLog
WebLog was first written in Perl by Darryl C. Burgdorf in 1997 and last updated as version 2.53 in 2006. The Internet Archive site download links still work in 2025. Carryls wrote several useful Perl scripts and those can be found on the link given for the 2006 version of WebLog.
I downloaded and ran WebLog v2.53 against some server logs on a Windows 11 computer. The results are complete but it seems very slow to complete.
WebReport
WebLog Expert Lite
WebReporter
WebSideStory HBX Analytics
WebStat
Webtrax
Webtrax was originally written in Perl by John Callender but substantially rewritten by Tom Van Vleck. The earliest Internet Archive mention of it is from 1999. It was last updated in 2006. The file can still be downloaded but now needs an FTP client such as WinSCP rather than through a browser, most of which stopped supporting the FTP protocol in 2023.
Some time before 2022, Tom Van Vleck developed Super Webtrax which needs a MySQL database as well as Perl. The program is also available on GitHub.
WebTrends Log Analyzer
WGStat
WWWStat
There were also plenty of non-free commercial programs around such as 3DStats, InSight Reports, InSite, SurfReport, and WebLog Manager
Unless these were later released into the Public Domain the downloads for these programs involved registering them. As that is now impossible, I have simpy listed them here.
Sources & Resources
Comparison table of the features offered by Analog, AWStats, and Webalizer
Free Web Log Analysers and Web Statistics (The Free Country)
List of web analytics software (Wikipedia)
Log File Analysis Tools (1996, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Log File Analysis Tools (1998, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Overview of Web Site Traffic Analysis Tools (PlanetMike) - Reviews of several "old-school" web log analyzers by Mike Clark
Top Free Web Analytics Software (Pat Research) - Reviews of several "old-school" web log analyzers
Web analytics (Wikipedia)