Right now our web server is running on Apache, and we are using Awstats, which is an amazing stats/log reader. It tells us everything that we wanted to know about our pages, and who is visiting them, ect. When we move over to matrix, is this something that can be installed, or does matrix have its own stats/logs that are similar? or are we better off just using something like Google Analytics?
Web statistics like Awstats
matg
(Mat Griffin)
#2
[quote]Right now our web server is running on Apache, and we are using Awstats, which is an amazing stats/log reader. It tells us everything that we wanted to know about our pages, and who is visiting them, ect. When we move over to matrix, is this something that can be installed, or does matrix have its own stats/logs that are similar? or are we better off just using something like Google Analytics?
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We use awstats still
Avi_Miller
(Avi Miller)
#3
Most of our clients still use either AWstats or Webalizer. Squiz itself uses a mix of AWstats and Google Analytics.
In fact, in Matrix v3.10 and higher, you can get Matrix to add user information into your Apache log so that you can even analyze closed-user areas of your website.
nnhubbard
(Nic Hubbard)
#4
So Matrix is still writing to the Apache log? I guess everything is still getting served by Apache, in a round about way, right?
Avi_Miller
(Avi Miller)
#5
[quote]So Matrix is still writing to the Apache log? I guess everything is still getting served by Apache, in a round about way, right?
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Not in a roundabout way at all – Apache is the webserver. 
Matrix just runs as a PHP application fired by Apache for each request.