Generating good statistics on Windows is a real pain. Expensive software like Webtrends is hard to maintain, hard to use and the generated statistics are graphical bull shit which are only useful to managers and marketing guys ("Wow! Those graphics looking great!!")

Webalizer, which is my first choice in the unix world, is also available for Windows but it does not support the W3C extended log file format (which is used by Microsoft's IIS) natively and tools like rconvlog are not working correctly. I wonder what has happened to the W3C patch which is mentioned on the webalizer web site. Since 2000 this patch (which I can't find) is not included into webalizer.

Well, because I was in need of a solution I patched webalizer myself to introduce W3C extended logfile support. The patch can be downloaded here.

I already tested the patch on a windows server. Seems to work. I'll produce a win32 binary package of webalizer tomorrow and publish it on my website.