My girlfriend recently asked me "so what is the most popular page on your blog?" That was an interesting question, and to be honest, I had no idea. I regularly monitor my Apache logs, so I had a rough idea of what's popular but I never actually dug into into my access logs to find out. Using a few handy commands (awk, grep, sort, uniq) I determined that the most popular page on kolich.com is my post on Microsoft's IE8 Boondoggle: The IE8 Beta Incompatibility List.
My complete most popular list can be found here.
The command chain I used to analyze my access logs is as follows:
This command produces a text file that looks something like this:
I then wrote this PHP script which uses Gagawa to read the text file output and create a nice HTML template of the results. Enjoy.
My complete most popular list can be found here.
The command chain I used to analyze my access logs is as follows:
cat /var/log/httpd/mark.koli.ch-access_log* | awk '{print $7}' | \
grep html | grep -v "mt-static" | grep -v tracker | \
sort | uniq -c | sort --reverse -n | tee ~/popular.txt
This command produces a text file that looks something like this:
42 /2008/10/first-post.html
41 /2008/12/initial-implementation-of-gagawa-in-php-now-available.html
37 /2009/01/follow-up-four-more-reasons-why-i-dislike-facebook-and-myspace.html
36 /2008/10/obamas-prime-time-ad-skips-over-budget-realities.html
34 /2008/12/howto-recursively-delete-directories-on-windows.html
33 /2009/01/jpandmeghancom-a-work-of-css-art.html
I then wrote this PHP script which uses Gagawa to read the text file output and create a nice HTML template of the results. Enjoy.
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