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Web analytics Web analytics is the measurement, data collection, collection, analysis, and reporting of web Data (computing), data to understand and optimize web usage. Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool fo ...

Log analysis In computer log management and intelligence, log analysis (or ''system and network log analysis'') is an art and science seeking to make sense of computer-generated records (also called log or audit trail records). The process of creating such reco ...

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sawmill.net
Sawmill is a software package for the

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and reporting of

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, with dynamic contextual filtering, live data zooming, user interface customization, and custom calculated reports. Sawmill also incorporates real-time reporting and alerting. Sawmill has been available since 1997. Sawmill provides support for approximately 850 server log file formats, with new formats added on request. Sawmill also includes a page tagging server and JavaScript page tag for the analysis of client side clicks (client requests) providing a total view of visitor traffic and on-site behavioral activity. Sawmill Analytics is offered in three forms: a software package for user deployment, a system appliance for use on-premises, and an application for software as a service (SaaS). Sawmill analyzes any device or software package, producing a log file that includes

web server A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiate ...

s, firewalls,

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s, mail servers, network devices, syslog servers, and

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s. Sawmill is the

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reporting engine sold by

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as a bundled part of their proxy server product. Branded versions of Sawmill include ''Sawmill for IronPort'' by

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. Sawmill was a second runner-up in the 2009 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards. Sawmill is listed in the Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview.Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview
reviews Sawmill.

References

External links

http://www.sawmill.net
for universal web log analysis and reporting.
http://www.sawmill.co.uk
Distribution, training, sales and support for the EMEA region.

from

AWStats AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics) is an Open-source software, open source Web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing Server log, data from Internet services such as web server, web, streaming media, mail server, mail, and File Transfer P ...

documentation
PC Magazine review
of Sawmill 6 from 2001, retrieved 2009-11-27

of Sawmill 7 from Information Management Magazine, September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-03. Web analytics Web log analysis software

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