Advanced Log Analyzer v1.5
Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Abacre Corporation. All Rights Reserved
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Advanced Log Analyzer is powerful web site activity analysis software. 
It generates a large number of traditional reports like Most Common Pages 
and Referrers. The main advantage of this analyzer is in its 
“untraditional” reports like Most Common Visitor Paths and Profiles, 
Web Model report, and Indirect and Direct Referrer Analysis reports.

Our Log Analyzer works on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP as:
· Windows application with GUI (Graphical User Interface). 
· Console version of application that can be automated. 
· CGI application on Windows web servers like Microsoft Internet 
Information Server (IIS) and Apache.

Features:
· Works as GUI/Console/CGI application. 
· Completely configurable reports. 
· Supports IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, Apache and other log formats. 
· Large number of traditional reports such as Most Common Pages 
  and Referrers. 
· Great set of untraditional reports like Most Common Visitor Paths 
  and Profiles, Web Model report, Indirect and Direct Referrer 
  Analysis reports and others. 
· It’s really very fast and it does not require a lot of memory to run. 


What's new
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v1.5.0
Feature: new report: Time users stay on site.
Feature: new report: Most requested pictures
Feature: new Pie chart displaying module.
Feature: support of Netscape iPlanet log files.
Feature: support of IIS 6.0 and Apache 2 log files.
Feature: .NET support.
Feature: shows only "Errors in log file" message when needed.
Feature: improved style and processing of WebModel report.
Feature: new Add Right Site Filter for dynamic sites.
Bug fixed: small bug in Schedule (could not send attachements sometimes)

v1.4.0
Feature: Incremental analysis. Don't analyze the same date twice.
Feature: Approximate analysis of extremely large log files (more than
1GB).
Feature: Send reports by E-Mail.
Feature: Export report into Excel files.
Feature: Downloading by built-in FTP client of whole remote folder of
log files.
Feature: FTP Explorer of remote log files.
Feature: Printing reports by Print button on Results tab.
Feature: Cleaning output folder ala_out before generating reports.
Bug fixed: Program hanged up after scanning of corrupted GZ files.

v1.3
Feature: reverse DNS lookup, possibility to get geographical stats and 
  stats about network users.
Feature: support analysis of GZ log files.
Feature: automatic log file format detection. Possibility to analyze 
  several log formats at once.
Feature: showing analysis date and time.
Feature: new parameter added, show developer information.

v1.2.1
Bug fixed: in scheduling mode the same site name was displayed for several sites.
Bug fixed: broken links in documentation were corrected.
Feature: added support of PHP files.

v1.2
Feature: new interface like in Outlook.
Feature: new scheduling panel.
Feature: new report type: Cross report and two new reports based on this 
  report type: Search words by search engines and Search words by search 
  engines.
Feature: new report type: Time taken and its realization Time taken for 
  user to download HTML or image file. 
Feature: passwords for access to FTP site are encrypted now. If you used 
  our FTP utility in previous versions of ALA, you need to set up the ftp 
  password again. 
Feature: possibility to print progress data into windows console when 
  running with specific command line parameters.
Feature: possibility to specify Min and Max Y values for chart in time 
  report.
Feature: chars are saved now in GIF format.
Feature: showing Table Footer for each report.
Feature: possibility to Copy/Paste sites and reports.
Feature: saving of Advanced Options parameters for Main tab.
Feature: correct saving of coordinates of main window.
Feature: saving values in all ComboBoxes, for example URLs in Results tab.
Small 
Bug fixed: progress window shows now correct values in Kbytes/Sec.
Bug fixed: it was not possible to stop program during analysis of several 
  log files.
Bug fixed: Correct log downloading when FTP server does not support SIZE 
  command.

v1.1 
Description: This is a stable version with few functional improvements.
Feature: Added more graphics to GUI
Feature: Corrected documentation
Feature: Possibility to enter reg key from menu Help -> Register.
Bug fixed: After minimizing with shown Tip window the program could not 
  be restored.

v1.0
Feature: automatic creation of output directory if it does not exist 
  and coping of ala.css, progress.gif and index.htm files to this directory.
Feature: added ability to choose type of charts: pie, line or bar.
Feature: displaying of table footer for basic reports.
Feature: number values in tables are now aligned to the right.
Feature: correct display of Last Visitors Paths report. 
Feature: added ability to hide navigation bar in reports.
Bug fixed: Interface was not correctly adjusted for large system fonts.
Bug fixed: corrected count of downloads from download.com and some other sites. 
  This bug was because of filter definition for reports.ini. 
Bug fixed: corrected display of time reports with Hourly intervals.

v0.99 beta
Feature: support of command line parameters.
Bug fixed: can now make a visible modal window.
Bug fixed: site and reports lists now maintain focus selection during 
  editing of details. 

v0.98 beta
Documentation and pricing were changed. 

v0.97 beta
Feature: added new reports; Most Requested File Types, Most Requested Referrer IDs.
Feature: reports can now be assigned to a site.
Feature: 'limit by date' added to main tab.
Feature: added support of php3 and php4 pages.

v0.96 beta
Feature: added new reports; Most Busy Days of Week, Most Common Requested 
  Directories, Most Common Requested Files.
Feature: added support for referrer id (uri query) in Apache log formats.
Bug fixed: corrected "exeption Invalid floating point operation" in Most Common 
  Paths reports.
Bug fixed: corrected display of Hist by Week report.
Bug fixed: corrected display of percentages in basic and search words reports.
Bug fixed: Referrer Domains for Programs and Referrer Sites of the programs now display stats for exe as well as zip files.

v0.952 beta
Bug fixed: corrected "List index out of bounds" error in some of the reports.
Bug fixed: corrected "Invalid flaoting point operation" error in some of the reports.

v0.951 beta
Bug fixed: corrected inability to change parameters of reports. 
  This bug resulted from corrections in 0.95.
Bug fixed: corrected time operation functions.

v0.95 beta
Feature: reports are now displayed in frames.
Feature: support for Overture.com (former goto.com) search engine.
Feature: now displays Windows XP platform in reports.
Feature: added uri_query parameter for filtered reports.
Feature: added new includes_in filter.
Feature: added Status report panel.
Feature: added Apache common format (it was a reason why ALA 
  would not work with some Apache log files).
Feature: added no-cache for report pages.
Bug fixed: in creation of new filter for reports.
Bug fixed: log path sometimes could not be saved.

v0.94 beta
Feature: added New Site wizard.
Feature: added Tips for basic panels.
Some major bugs fixed.

v0.92 beta
Bug fixed: site list now updated correctly during add/remove site operations.
Feature: added prompt to save configuration on exit of the program.
Feature: added small interface changes.

v0.91 beta
Bug fixed: Cancel button now works in report progress window.
Bug fixed: Default site name is now saved.
Bug fixed: Now possible to analyze more than one log file.
Feature: Small interface changes.
Feature: added display of current log file in progress window.
Feature: added generation of smart report names for new reports.
Feature: added display of reg name in about window.
Feature: added display of status info for local browser.

v0.9 beta 
Shipped with GUI

v0.8 beta
Bug fixed with processing of IIS 5.0 logs

v0.7 beta 
Improved protection and docs

v0.6 beta
Improved documentation

v0.5 beta
First release of beta version.



Requirements
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Program works under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me.
No optional features to the system are required.
It does not yet work on Linux or UNIX platforms.

Installation/Unistallation
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Create appropriate directory, for example, c:\ala\, and unzip ALA.ZIP 
file. Then run SETUP.EXE program and follow the standard installation 
instructions. 

To uninstall Advanced Log Analyzer, Run Add/Remove Programs from 
Control Panel and choose Advanced Log Analyzer.

Registration pages:
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Evaluation period for Advanced Log Analyzer is 30 days, 
after that time you may register here:

www.abacre.com/register.htm


Author's address
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http://www.abacre.com
support@abacre.com



