AWStats
Generate statistics from web, streaming, ftp or mail server logfiles.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Nov 2025.
Also an alternative to Google Analytics.
At a glance
AWStats quick facts
- Health score
- 34/100 STALE
- Stars
- 439
- Last commit
- 12 months ago (Nov 2025)
- Latest release
- AWSTATS_8_0, Aug 2025
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "AWStats (Advanced Web Statistics) is a powerful, full-featured web server logfile analyzer which shows you all your Web statistics including: visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, broken links, robots and many more..."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
AWStats scores 34/100, #30 of 33 in Analytics: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (AWSTATS_8_0, 1.2 years ago) earns 13.4 of 25, 439 stars add 10.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 13.4 / 25
AWSTATS_8_0 released 1.2 years ago
- Stars 10.6 / 20
439 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 2
- Last 12 months
- 12 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #30 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between Prisme Analytics (#29) and Offen (#31) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Perl |
| Latest release | AWSTATS_8_0 · 1.2 years ago |
| Stars | 439 |
| Open issues | 132 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | eldy/awstats ↗ |
AWStats vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with AWStats (Analytics), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umami | 98 | 40k | MIT | yesterday |
| Rybbit | 96 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Countly Community Edition | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| HitKeep | 88 | 102 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| GoatCounter | 68 | 6.1k | EUPL-1.2 | 1 month ago |
| AWStats (this tool) | 34 | 439 | GPL-3.0 | 12 months ago |
AWStats: common questions
What does AWStats replace?
Repoly lists AWStats as an open-source alternative to Google Analytics. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where AWStats stands against the others.
Is AWStats still maintained?
AWStats had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 12 months ago; the latest tagged release, AWSTATS_8_0, is from 1.2 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.